San Francisco, Mar, 6.
The Dollar liner President Coolidge returned to her berth at Pier 42 here to-day with her entire bow smashed and a jagged hole extending at least 20 feet above the water line after: the Orient-bound steamer had collided with an of tanker In a dense fog off Fort Point at 1245 o'clock this afternoon. The gapping hole in the liner's bow was covered with heavy tarpaulin to prevent the sea water from flooding the ship.
Scores of rescue craft canter today had rushed tothe seene, of the collision, almost directly under the Golden Gate Bridge, when the Pres! dent Coolidge sent out an SES. porting that the 6,000-ton Associated li tanker Frank H. Buck was sinking. with a crew of $0 men on board iter having ootided with the Dollar liner.
"The President Coolidge later reported, however, that it had rescued all members of the tanker's crew and. was' making an effort to tow the: sinking ship Into port, These efforts; were abandoned, however, because of of the sinking condition of the ship off Mile Rock, No casualties resulted, from the accident. The President Coolidge, at the time of the collis was carrying 678 passengers and a crew of 380.
Frenzied sounds of sirens, foghorns and whistles of both vessels Sabotage Reported to Air Ministry seat v0 sin "ne, London, Mar, case of what appears to have been deliberate damage to a Service aeroplane at the Midland Aircraft establishment, has been reported to the Air Ministry. The incident is now being invesilgated by the secret police, "The Air Ministry, it is understood, does not consider the case 'a8 one implying any serious out real of sabotage.
Other incidents are also being investi ted—Reuler. penetrated the pea-soup fog -shortly afler noon to-day, and the absence of immediate reports following the Dollar liner's 8.08, threw the waterfront into a panic, The President Coolidge, however, soon. established constant contact with Globe Wireless and Mackay Radio, giving compl details of the collision and rescue work.
The all tanker at the time of the rash was in-bound from Ventura, California, with a load of crude all Coast Guard ships were standing by the submerged wreckage of the tanker late to-day abreast Seal Rock. Tug-boats were surveying possibilities for salvaging the wrecked ship.—United Press.
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