The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-01
With Five Others He Reached
the Shore ON Raft.
HE HIMSELF SENDS THE NEWS,
His Chief Concern Loss of the Papers
Coneering Business.
"A second Raft and Boat Believed to
Have Escaped d-The Women and
Children All Drowned History or
spearin, the Lost Surveyor.

san Francisco MAY S.-The forehodirrs
OF TIE friends OF the passengers and crev
OF the Eolima we're exceedtrx4.- r4s,s,rnv
this morning. and few cherished any hone
OF the survival of those hitherto unac-
counted for. The Pacific Mail Steamship
Company declared that ii had received alb
solGteay no word from the scene of tho
disaster Mrs. &. III. Cushing mother OF
two Young men who were passengers, re-
ceiVea message from the son picked isp
by the San Juan. dated ,Nazatian. as fol-
lows: Am here, returning on San Juan.
Late IN the afternoon a message was re-
ceiVed by Mrs. Peters. whose son I,ouis
was passenger for Guatemala The ,ete.
gram was dated Guatemala unsigned
but presumed 70 he from Mrs Peters hns-
band. who resides in Guatemala II was
as foiiows: Louis is safe on the Rarra-
couta- Another dispatch TO a private
shipping firm from Guatemala states that
the steamer Barracouta. which has been
cruising about the scene of the wreck In
search of survivors. picked ltp a raft with
nine passengers from the colima Peters
among the number. The Barracuda has
not yet yut into port hut the Pacific Mail
officials suggest that the vessel probably
signaled a smaller vessel which put into
that port TO convey the news of the res
cue TO the nearest town and thence teie-
graphed to Guatemala.
The latest details received here up to
o'clock are contained in the following mes
sage: 'Coiima, Mexico. May Si.-Six SUR
vivors of the steamer Colma have reached
here. They are John Thornton. ]. f. Chill
berg. OF Seattle cabin passengers. Peters
and Nindor and Seamen Gonzales and
Johnston. They are said to have reached
shore on raft. and another raft with
five men is reported from San Telmo. The
survivors state that the woman and chill
dren were all in the staterooms and all
went down with the steamer. The survi-
vors also report that Purser Wafer was
seen in a weil-manned boat pulling away
from the sinking steamer toward shore.
IL is supposed that this boat is stifi afioat."
Washington City. May sl.-State depart
ment officials are doing all in their power
to relieve the American survivors of the
unfortunate steamer Colima. The first oiii-
cial notice of the disaster came to Assist
ant Secretary Rockhill "Wednesday night
from United States Consul Decima, at
Mazatlan. He reported that 10 lives were
lost and that the ship had on board $780,
900 OF American interests" supposedly re-
ferring to goods belonging TO American
shippers. lie asked whether ne should
proceed to the scene OF the wreck. Rock
hill instructed him to do IL at once, and if
he could render any assistance TO report
TO the department. A message was also
sent United States Consul Bartlett at Aca-
pulco to learn whether he could be of any
assistance, and instrllcfing him TO coop
crate with the consul at Mazatian.
City of Mexico. May 31--T'he Pacific
Mall Steamship Company is severely GEN.
sured for overlooking and bad placing OF
the cargo on the Colima. to which Is at
tributed the rapid sinking OF the steamer.