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Show STEAMER STRIKES ROCK. I Passengers .Have Close Call in Sight of Exposition Grounds. San Francisco. With lion passengers passen-gers on board, mostly women and children, including forty-five orphans' from a home at Vallejo. the General Frisbie a small bay steamer, struck a submerged rock l'0 yards off the Pauania-Parilic exposition grounds Monday night and began to sink. Lifeboats from United Slates warships war-ships anchored near-by promptly took off ail hands and brought them ashore. |