Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-07

upstairs. At this time the third officer cut the lashings that bound the lumber deck load. The smokestack had top pied over. He made for a boat, intend ing to cut 1t loose from its fastenings. but was unable to do SO. The ship WAS on her beam ends and the decks bulged out and were finally rent.
 q then jumped into the water. seized box and was washed about from one float to another like many others. The heaviest squall came just following the disappearance of the ship. While II pre- vailed many of those who were strug- gling in the waves were mangled and drowned by floating lumber Five of Us, Tom Fitch, Jack Carpenter, two Mexicans and myself, got on a raft and were picked up by boat in command of Captain Long, formerly captain of the Colima. A Mexican named Zerrabia went crazy from drinking salt water
 c. If. Cushing, Jr., was in bed during the first part of the blow, but got up In time to be huSed into the, sea with a cabin roof. lS told his story as fol- lows: T found myself in the water without knowing just how l got there By some means or another, just when had abandoned all hope of being saved, l found myself floating near portion Of the cabin roof with two others. They pulled me on the raft. Shortly after we got on the raft a keg of claret fioated near and we captured it. It was long time before we got the keG open, ana am sorry it was ever opened. My two companions drank until they became worse than intoxicated. One of them lald down and went to sleep, but the other insisted upon quarreling and finally at tackled me. To save my life 1 had 10 knock him overheard. The bath sobered him and l pulled him aboard again. He began drinking harder than ever and finally fell overheard and was drowned. After his companion awoke he behaved himself and later we were picked up. As to the cause of the wreck l can say but little. In the excitement many took no notice of anything but their own safety, and that of the helpless ones around them. l cannot really say as to the list of the ship. l had not gone to breakfast and was up only long enough to notice that it was a terrific hurri- cane and that the waves were mountain high" MT. Cushing had a brother lS years old on the Colima. Nothing has been heard from him. The surviving brother was terribly cut on the head by floating lumber besides being bruised about the body.
 bound for New York, agreed in the main with the previous statements of the storm and added: '"rhere was abso- lutely no disciplne--no organization of any kind. Everything was panic The captain stood on the bridge Women screamed and the children cried, cling ina, in desperation to their parents, and even to strangers. As soon as it became evident that the ship was doomed l hastily pulled down some life preserNers When seen by the steward, he ordered me peremptorily to discontinue what l was doing. Without paying any atten- tion to him%I kept on pulling down life belts and passing them out. As l am unable to swim, I tied one of these belts around me and jumped into the sea. Thred times I sank. and had just reached for a piece of wreckhge when l was again knocked under by something, pre- sumably a plank, large gash was cut inlmy head, and I am cut and bruised all over. After floating about for twenty four hours on large piece of wood, was picked up by a boat from the San Juan"
 Sailor A. L. Carpenter was one of the party on the craft. He says that at tempts were made to lower the boats, but failed All the women were in their staterooms, for none of them expected that the disaster was upon them. 'I think that something shifted below" added Carpenter. "The vessel ran into a gale from 9 o'clock Monday night until Il o'clock the following evening. She steered badly, and when about thirty miles below Mapzanillo she lost steerage way, swung her head around a few points, and in less time than 1t takes to tell it, she careened over her beam ends. Scarcely ten minutes elapsed before she went down. Captain Taylor died at his post. I was thrown into the water and when l came up I seized a stick of lum- Der and floated about until picked up by the people on the raft. Such hurrl- cane I never before experienced in all my seafaring life. Lumber broken decking and dead bodies drifted by tis. and the horrors of the situation was alone enough to render us helpless" Following is the list of survivors landed today: Third Mate Hansen. R. Avilles, A. Carpenter. A. Richardson, Thomas Fish, all members of the crew; H. A Sutherland. c. H. Cushing J. M Thornton III. H. Boyd, George Rowan, Bruno Cenda, Jose Manuel G. D. Ross, Louis Sangenews, T. J. Oreil Juan A. Ramos.
 The following survivors were landed at Manzatlan: Thomas Serlia, D. OIivas, A. Guitteras Carlos Luitz.
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