Show KEPT LEAKY SHIP AFLOAT vessel brought into port after ter rife battle with sea san francisco leaking at the rate of eighteen inches a day and with her men exhausted after a long battle at the pumps to keep the ves sel afloat the american ship erskene M phelps bound from seattle for kargul sought refuge from the storm off this port thursday morning and arrived in the harbor shortly before noon so desperate was the struggle waged by the members of the ship s crew to make san francisco lest their vessel founder at sea that all arriving were on the verge of col lapse the phelps left seattle man days ago bound for kargul in bal last in command of captain graham while off cape flattery nino days ago the vessel sprung a leak |