The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-06-01
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Steamer Colima Founders In the
Pacific Two Hundred Drown.
Boiler Explosion Wrecks French steamer
aud One Hundred Lives Are Lost
Twenty Persons Perish by
Floods I'm Texas.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 29.-R
Schwerin, superintendent of the Pa
ciiic Mail company, late Tuesday night
received word that the Colima had
been wrecked Nineteen of those on
board were saved.
Storel<eeper Richardson, OF the com
pany, was the one who sent the first
news about the disaster. IL was he
who sent the message to his father-in-
law In this city that he had been saved.
The wreck occurred between Man
camilla and Acapulco May "a.
The Colima carried a very heavy
cargo OF general merchandise, and in
addition to the cabin passengers, who
numbered between thirty-five and
fifty. carried a number Of Storage pas
sengers. There was on the vessel all
told nearly 200 people. A ships boat
containing five Of the crew and four
teen OF the passengers arrived at Man
vanilla Tuesday.
Assistant Superintendent Avery, of
the Pacific Mail, stated late Tuesday
night that the Colina carried l92 peo-
pie, and only nineteen were saved.
There were forty cabin passengers,
thirty-seven Storage, forty-three Chi
nese, and the crew numbered seventy
two.s Most of the cabin passengers
were bound through to New York.
The Colima was commanded by Capt.
;. +. Taylor and was an iron vessel of
1900 tons. She was built ia 1873 by
Roach a. Sons, of Philadelphia, and
was owned by the Pacific Mail COM
pany.
CADrz, May 20 Particulars have
been received here of the terrible dis
aster 70 the French steamship Dom
Pedro, which resulted in the loss of
about 100 lives. The Dom Pedro was a
3,000-ton steamer and was engaged
in running between Havre and the
Argentine Republic. calling at Bor-
deaux, France, and carried freight
and passengers. The latter were
mostly emigrante bound for the
Argentine Republic or other points of
South America. On her return trips
the Dom Pedro was generally loaded
with frozen meat She left Havre on
May 20 last, with crew OF forty nine
all told and with eighty passengers.
At Carrill the steamer was to have
embarked 200 additional passen-
gers, but on her way TO that port
she ran on rock off Cape Corrubedo,
on the west coast of Galicia. Her
boilers exploded, the vessel laundering
immediately afterward. 1t Is now said
that only the captain of the Dom
Pedro and twenty-six of the crew were
saved, which would seem TO indicate
that all the passengers were either
killed by the explosion or drowned
when the vessel went down.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 20. = Nat
Sulzbadner, of this city. has Just re-
turned from the Devils river country,
where he came near being victim of
the terrible food that visited that sec
ton Tuesday. lie was caught in
the rushing waters and lost all of his
baggage. He states that he helped to
bury four persons who met death by
drowning near Ozona. Three others
belonging to- the same family were
drowned, but their bodies have not
been recovered. The victims were:
George velnscos, Mrs. Velascos. three
women, two men.
The unfortunate people lived on the
bank OF Devils river. which rose 30
feet within thirty minutes and swept
their house and the whole family into
the raging torrent. All the houses on
the Prosser ranch, between Juno and
Comstock, were swept away and sew
eral families, numbering In all about
twenty persons, are believed to have
been drowned. The DEVILS river aud
It's tributary branches are still out of
their banks and much damage TO prop
erty along the stream Is reported.