Wreck of the Haddingtonshire
ONE of the worst disasters known on this coast occurred last week a few miles north of San Francisco. On the 4th of July the British ship Haddingtonshire left the Columbia River for Glasgow, with a cargo of flour and canned salmon. In the tropics a severe storm was encountered, in which four men were lost, the vessel badly damaged, and the ship's chronometer lost. The only hope was in reaching San Francisco for repairs, and this was attempted, the vessel being navigated by dead reckoning. In the dense fog which hid the coast, they sailed past the Golden Gate, and on the morning of the 20th went ashore on the rocks above Point Reyes. The vessel soon went to pieces, and but little of the cargo was washed ashore. Of the twenty men on board, eighteen were drowned, or thrown on the rocks and killed. A man and a boy were washed ashore alive. The ship was new, and valued at $60,000, and the cargo was worth over $100,000.