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Show STEAMER DRIVEN Two of Crew Drowned in Attempt to Reach Land in Small Boats Surf, Cal.. Jan. 13. The steam bchooner Sybil Marston, Captain Schll-Hnsky, Schll-Hnsky, bound from II rays Harbor, I Wash., and loaded with lumber lor j Redondo, was driven ashore, off Surf j late Inst night, and today is being j Lattered to pieces in the breakers a ! mile below this point. Tho crew ; made an attempt to teach shore in the small boats at daybreak this morning and two of them were drowned. drown-ed. The body of one was recovered. The other is still missing. 'At 9 o'clock this morning the boats containing the crew were pulling toward to-ward shore in a terrible sea. Tho coast at .this point is rocky and precipitous. pre-cipitous. It was believed, however, that with good seamanship, the men should be able to reach the beach in safety. The night was dark and stormy and tbf crew passed a night of trying hardship and danger on board the broken vessel. For hours she contin-i contin-i i.ed to drift towards shore and down the coast, a fog finally obscuring the ilghts and drowning tho sounds or the whistle. At daylight this morning, the vessel ves-sel was seen about a mile northward, lying well in towards shore, the high breakers beating over her. Afterwards After-wards the crew was observed making their efforf; to reach shore. There are practically ' no facilities hero for aiding the men to reach shore, but the residents of this sparsely settled vicinity gathered on the beach to do everything possible. The steamer Sybil Marston, which is one of the finest vessels of her class on the Pacific coast, was bound lrom Grays Harbor to Redondo with a cargo of about 1,100,000 feet of lumber. She carries a crew of twenty-two men. The vessel 3 owned by llscher &, Minor of San Francisco and lias a capacity of 1,100 tons gross. |