Show 1 CLOSE CLOSE- GALL FOR Dill BATTLESHIPS I Illinois Breaks From Froni Anchor and Strikes Alabama in Storm SLIGHT DAMAGE RESULTS Fierce Southwester Whips Monterey Montere Bay Into White Fury Mont Monterey re Cal May 3 Not S.-Not Not since they set out from Hampton Roads dl did the tho ships of or the time Atlantic fleet como come nearer to decisive disaster than the they did early this morning when the tho Illinois ported from her anchor in a southwester whipped Monterey ba bay Into a white fury and sent her drifting straight in tho courso course of ot the Alabama That tho Alabama was not sunk with her plate ripped open b by tho the prow of or the Il Illinois II- II was due ue to a chance chanco vagary of or ortho tho the wind The change chance came Just as th Illinois Il Illinois Il- Il was about to ram tho the flagship which was swaying with her lights leering In tho the storm Veering round again with the new stunt of tho the wind the Illinois grazed the stern of or the Alabama with a a. crouch and carried away her boom A second anchor had been lowered Just before the crash but the gale was wasso wasso wasso so violent that It continued to drag until the Illinois got ot a n. few tew ship lengths nearer shore Searchlights had b begun sun to flash In tho meantime and b by tho the time time the anchor was ab able to grip the bed bell of or thea the tho bay a It was seen that the splintered boom of or the Alabama was the extent of the tho damage Discipline on both battleships was faultless throughout tho the tension of or the tho mishap their crews crew responding with alertness to time the orders that were sent eat nt out in the dark above the dim of tho the storm Just as the Illinois was righting herself herself her her- self a n 1 red d glare lit up the bay by where the combers were Vero lashing the tho wharf of or the Del Monte bathing house A Continued oil on rate ure T u 1 o. o i 1 I CLOSE CALL FOR FOR BIG BATTLESHIPS Continued d From big gasoline fishing launch which ha habec had been bec moored to lo a 1 buoy O several se oral hundred hun hun- sired dred yards from flom th lie pier caught fire from an nut explosion of or gasoline and was totally de destroyed tr el The Tho two two-masted schooner chool Newark which lun runs between San Sam Francisco and Bixby's Landing was moored about a half halt mile mie below the battleships when her hem straining cables snapped nappe Inthe Inthis in inthe the this gale galo UIl and bu went ashore The rue position where tho time Newark stranded was so tam far Inshore that her crew remained ab about ut with wh their trousers trousers trous trous- ers CIS i rolled oiled to their knees confident of ot being being able u to wado walo In safety to lo the lie beach when she broke c. After a n number num of lines had hal snapped the Newark was pulled hulled to lo safety her Imer sails and amid rigging showing evidence u of or lice her fight with the storm The storm was one ono of or the lie most truculent that has Imas blown over o Monterey Mon Ion terey bay In Iii years year's and caused a great deal leal of ot damage to small smal craft craf In Iii addition allIton to o the narrowly averted a collision between the tire battleships the Iho storm interfered with the tho order o of the feet by keeping nearly 2000 blue Jackets an amid officers marooned in Monterey Monterey Mon lon terey over O CI night hl |