| Show l VOL voi VU V Passengers Are Periled When Wave Smashes ashes Decks of the Steamer mer Harvard t I Tons of Water Pour Through Gap dap ap Panic Starts on Big Vessel PACIFIC COAST IN STORM GRIP Northern Pacific Breaks Down Off Point Arena When Steam and Hand Steering Steering Steering Steer Steer- ing Gear ear Are Disabled Many ManyI I Craft Are Overdue SAN FRANCISCO May 1 Three Three h Hundred passengers on the steamer Harvard which left San Pedro late yesterday for San Francisco were vere placed in danger of their lives when the vessel three hours and a half out was struck by bya a giant wave vave that badly damaged the second deck and drenched many of the passengers Tons of water vater flowed through the g gap p opened by the wave vave and staterooms were vere partially flooded The passengers were thrown into a semi panic The he Harvard was vas forced to put back Several vessels due to arrive yester yesterday l'- l' had hadnot af d not appeared early today having been driven far outto q S sea l. l by Py j the storm n ears are J are n et f for i the fhe safety s fety of pf the Norwegian steel shirr ship Aggi The The ship was vas in tow of the ste steamer r Edgar H H. Vance lance which was vas forced by the heavy peavy seas seas easto to to I cut l loose ose leaving the ship to battle battle- alone with the storm No word vord from her has since b been n received I i v- v vt k t The Th passenger steamer North Northern rn P Pacific if t carrying 50 1 passengers was vas forced to heave to off Point Arena both her steam and hand steering gear having been disabled She sent a wireless message for a tug tog to come o out t and s stand standby by and at last reports yas was slowly vly toward this port under jury steering gear Boats Are Overdue The steamers Pennsylvania and I Iowan lowan overdue Both have been blown blo to the south bythe by bythe the g gale ale No report has been received from them The steamer Yosemite v with th forty P pas passengers pas as- as asse se a aboard board was placed in imminent peril evil north northbound to Portland Ore her main steam stearn pipe broke when she was vas off Point Reyes She succeeded succeed d however vever in putting S San 1 0 Francisco harbor Much damage of a minor n nature ture h has s been been done to small s craft in n the harbor and up and down the coast One fishing launch Is reported missing lg Gradual abatement of the general wind rain and nd snowstorms snow mow snowstorms storms which for three days daj's have hav prevailed in the the F Far r. r W West was Avas indicated early today in reports received from those thos of f the Pacific the Pacific coast states which felt the brunt of the storms Storm Carries Losses t Encouraging reports emanated emanate from the citrus belt beef of Can Call California told of moderated dc deg de de- degrees fornia which temper temperatures Forty Forty eight minimum recorded and th that t. t g grees lees was the hope r ope wa was expressed damage to oranges and lemons would be CO confined to U that t accomplished ed by the h high gh winds wind of yesterday and Thursday and y Hea Heavy vy snows vs in the Sierra and in Nevada a did mat rl v i age and severe e cold and a blIzza blizzard d in in eastern Oregon took he heavy vt a y 7 toll of sheep It was wa reported that 30 O h had l b been en destroyed destroy d. d The reports pointed panted out optimistically that that this loss Would be counterbalanced by by- benefits benefi ts accruing to growers of hay grain I and fr frutis b by y the added moisture t- t Til The orchards of s southern Oregon suffered s to some extent f r J ty from frost severe enough t to injure other crops The rains filled irrigation l atlon reservoirs irs to overflowing Redondo beach a l. resort in sout southern ern Galifornia was whipped last night by mighty combers h hurled shoreward by bya a a sli sixty mile gale gaJe g ale Resultant dam damage ge was placed d at t Many trees were blown down In in the Sacramento valley Late last night the wind registered a vel velocity oci lof five forty five miles an hour at the summit summit-of summit of Mount Tama als acro across th the bay baj from J San Francisco F i i i. i |
