Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. [ARTICLE]

EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST.

Driven on the Rocks Near San Francisco During a Furious Gale, The ship Elizabeth, of New York, which went ashore on the rocks at North Head, near San Francisco Sunday night, had twenty six men on board—the captain, two mates, the cook and twenty-two sailors; a’so, the captain's wife and two children 4 Three sailors, the captain's wife and child* ren got off in a small boat. Ths bout cap. sized, but ths occupants were rescued by a tug. It is thought the rest of the ves* sei's crew were drowned. A life-boat went to the ship-wrecked sailors, but was caps sized by the waves and the captain of the boat drowned. The ship Is breaking up fast on the rocks and will be a total loss. Tugs have taken two parties of men across the bay to San Sallto, and they have start* ed over the hills to search the beach for survivors. It is now positively known that the captain and seventeen sailors wore drowned.