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Show VESSELS WRECKED OFF PACIFIC COAST TWENTY-THREE NAVAL MEN LOSE LIVES WHEN DESTRO ITERS IT-ERS HIT ROCKS Passengers and Members of Crew o Liner Cuba Rescued After Disaster; Dis-aster; Dence Fog Blamed for Wreckings. Santa Barbara, Seven United States navy destroyers and the Pacific Paci-fic ma,il liner Cuba were wrecked Saturday morning and Sunday night, the navy vessels crashing on the rocks in a dense fog off Arguello light, seventy-five miles north ol Santa Barbara and the passenger steamer on a reef off the southeast end of San Miguel Island, thlrty-Qve miles off this port Twenty-three enlisted men of the destroyers lost their lives in the naval disaster and all the destroyers were reported as total losses. The liner Cuba was reiorted to have sunk during Sunday night, but all passengers and members of her crew either were landed at Los Angeles An-geles by the destroyer Reno or are on their way to San Francisco on board the Standard Oil tanker W, S. Niller, with the exception of Captain C. J. Holland, the purser, steward and eight seamen, who remained on hoard to guard a shipment of $2,500,-000 $2,500,-000 in silver bullion. Dense fog was the cause of both disasters. The destroyers Chauneey, Woodbury, Wood-bury, Fuller. S. P. Lee, Nicholas,. Young and Delphy were all bleached within a few minutes of one another, according to naval officers. The flotilla of which the wrecked craft formed a part was in command of Captain Edward Watson, commanding com-manding officer of the Delphy, and was on a practice cruise. The dead were all trapped in their bunks on the Young when that vessel struck and were drowned when the craft capsized within two minutes-after minutes-after striking. More than 500 men were rescued from the wrecked destroyers, which Sunday night were reported to be pounding to pieces on the rocks, all total losses. Of the survivors fifteen of the seriously se-riously injured were brought to the Santa Barbara county hospital here. One hundred others were cut and bruished in their swim to safety over the jagged rocks. The destroyers were traveling in formation at twenty twen-ty knots an hour in a heavy sea and dense fog when the leading vessel crashed. Carried ahead by a strong tide, the others piled on the beach in succession. succes-sion. Lying in line along the shore at intervals of feet, the boats were slowly breaking up. One of them the Chauneey, was resting high on the rocks. |