The record-union., 1895-05-31
No Fewer Than One Hundred and
Sixty-Four People Lost.
GREAT DIFFICULTY IN GETTING
FACTS OF THE TRAGEDY.
Five More People Reported to Have
Reached shore In Safety. Making
Twenty-Six Who Have Been Res
cued-The Outlook for the Re-
mainder of the Passengers and
Crew Being Saved Very Poor.
Special to the REcoRD-UNroS.

| Special to the RECORD-UNroN.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.-The Chroni-
Gle will say tomorrow morning that dis
patches received from Mexico tonight
make it certain that no fewer than 164
persons were drowned in the Colima
disaster. This statement is based on aG-
vices that 1913 persons were aboard the
ship when she foundered, aud only
| twenty-siX reached shore alive. Great
difficulty is still being experienced in
opening telegraphlc communication with
! Mexican points, but the brief messages
received are practically unanimous IN
! the statement that at least 160 lives were
! lost.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that President DiaZ has usr received
official information of the toundering of
the Colima. The dispatch contains no
details, but states that l60 souls were lost.
President Diaz, being confined to his bed
with illness, was inaccessible to visitors.
1t is impossible to learn what action
will be taken by the Mexican Govern
ment for the relief OF survivors and the
| burial of the dead, but Judging from his
policy in the past 1t is safe TO assume
| that everything will be done that can be
| done in the matter.
! This statement is practically corrobor-
ated by the following dispatch from
| Guadalajara: "A dispatch from Mama
Milo says that the Pacific Mail steamer
Colima was wrecked fifty miles southeast
of that port on the 10Th and 40 persons
peiished. The only survivors of the dis
aster are twenty passengers and the third
! rllO W n n
| yesterday by the coast limo steamer san
| Juan"
| The coast in the neigh borhood of Man
zanillO seems fated spot. Nearly all the
wrecks on the Panama route have oc-
Cured within 100 miles north or south of
| ManZanlllo.
| GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
| SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.-As further
particulars are being received con Germ
ing the Colima disaster. the outlook for
the passengers and crew not already re-
ported saved is very poor The Pacific
Mail Company shortly before o'cl' OK
| tonight received the following dispatch
from its agent at ManZanillo:
1.-The Colma foundered, going down
astern. sinking entirely IN ten minutes.
No strong wind, only heavy swell; same
swell caught Mexican schooners jose
| finna, Album and American schooner
Hayes. Captains of these schooners re-
port heavy swells, only entering here for
safety. Following is correct list OF saved:
| Cabin-Thornton, Sutherland, Cushing.
Ruiz, Gutierrez, Sarabia. Storage
Boyd, Zangone, Oriel, Ross, Ramon,
Saliz, Rolan and three men. Crew
Third Officer Hanson, Storekeeper Rich
ardson, Raymond and Moral. Have sent
steamer to look for wrecked persons.
ARNOLD, VoGEL IL Co."
| lo+ 4 fot t01i l.
in $50 tathoms. Steamer we sent last
night found nobody alive. Three cabin
passengers and two sailors got ashore at
| Coahuayana alive. Until now twenty
six persons saved"
/ The Pacific Mail officials now admit
that there is hardly any chance of other
passengers being saved. The fact that
| the steamer sunk III ten minutes would
indicate that only a few Of the people on
| board the ship got away.
At 10 O'clock tonight the Pacific Mail
| Steamship Company received the follow
ing telegram from its agent at Aianza-
Milo:
~"Having received news that people can
be saved near the mouth of river 1iity
sent with personnel of this agency. Will
wire further particulars. The Colima
cannot bs got afioat again. She is a total
| loss. ARNOLD, OGEL u Co."
This dispatch is regarded as the most
hopeful news that has been received
about the disaster to-day. While previ-
Gus kilograms have given little or no
hope that more than one boatload OF pas
sengers succeeded in getting away from
the sinking ship, to- o-nighps message indi-
Gates that many more lives may be saved.
HOW THE CAPTAIN MET WITH DEATH.
SAN Francisco, May 30.-The Chron-
| aoTo hau hi inn ,it h
Manzanillo, and tonight received the
following dispatch:
CITY OF MEXICO (va El Paso, Texas.
May 30.-It is now Z p. NJ, and not a
single press dispatch has yet been re-
ceiyed over the Government wires from
| Manzanillo. The single wire circuit be-
tween Manzanillo and Mexico City has
been kept at a glowing heat all day with
| official kilograms addressed to and sent
by the Secretary Of War, Dom Pedro j..
Hinolosa, though a few have also been
received by Major L. b. Gorsuch, the
| Mexican representative OF the Pacific
! Mail in this Capital. The gist of these
/ dispatches, as received up to this time, is
| as follows:
At about O'Clock on the morning OF
the 9th, i'll latitude lSo So north and
longitude l040 II west, the Colima was
| struck by powerful veerlng wind and
! driven upon coral reeI and sunk, with
| q large hole STAYED in her side near the
PROV. Captain j. Z. Taylor, after dis
| playing mastery skill in the management
| OF his vessel, was killed by falling mast.
The first pilot and first engineer were
| also killed, and soon after the boat struck
the reel and went down in thirty fathomS
| OF water.
Nearly twenty-four hours later the coast
line steamer San Juan, passing along,
picked up sixteen survivors and carried
them into the port OF ManZanillO. Five
others swain ashore, and five more, three
cabin passengers and two sailors, were
subsequently rescued by Government
boat sent out by the Pacific Mail Com
! pany'S agent at ManZanillo. One hun
dred and eighty eight persons are known
10 have been drowned and twenty \
were saved. The names of the three cabin
passengers rescued by the Government
boat have not yet been learned, but the
names OF the others are as follows: Tomas
| Sarabia, Charles Cushing, Jr.. a. j.
Southerland, *. VI. Thornton, Domingo
Albano, w. III. Boyd. q. Rowan, Bruno
Cerdia, j. Antonio Soils, George ID. Ross,
Luis SangIenes, I. j. Oriel, Juan Gamos,
Carlos Ruiz, Jose Il. Manuel, Angel
Gutierrez, and sailors Hausen, Aviles.
carpenter Richardson and Fish.
The Department OF War has ordered
the Government frigate Oaxaca, with
complete wrecking outfit, to proceed
from Mazallan 10 the scene OF the disas-
ter To see what can be done in the way oi
salvage and to render any assistance
necessary. Every effort is being made
by the Government to aid all interested.
ENCOURAGING NEWS.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30-N. II. Brewer
Guatemalan coffee planter now III this