The Portland daily press., 1895-06-01
FEW SURVIVE.
Waves 80 High That the Lifeboats
We're Useless.
OF MANZANILLO
MAKING'ATTEMPTs AT RESCUE.

The Captain Killed First-A Falling Spas
Rendered Him Helpless to Save Hi
Ship from the Fatal Rocks.
6 8 Manzanillo, Mexico, via Galveston. Tex
as, May ss31. The latest advices from the
scene of the wreck of the Pacific Mai
steamship Colima, which was lost OF
Monday last near Cuyutlan, small sea-
port to the southwest sof Manzanillo, in!
dictate that of the seamen and passengers
on board only 30 are known to have been
saved
This, if correct, means that about 184
lives were lost. This reckoning may be
altered in few hours when the news is
received from some of the searching par
ties securing the coast, for a passenger OF
board the steamship San Juan, which
rescued most of the Colilna survivors
now says that he saw one of the ill-fated
ships lifeboats making for the shore, ant
apparently in little danger. 1t is hoped
that this boat and it's crew may have
landed in safety.
DRIVEN ON A REEF.
1t is now known that the Colima wal
driven upon the reef which sent her to
the bottom by furious hurricane which
had rendered her unlnanageable long be
for she struck, and during which her cap
tain, j. B. Taylor, her first officer and chic
engineer were killed by flying spars.
A corrected list Of those saved includes
21 picked up by the San Juan, fv,
reached Cayatmayan in safety, and thre,
cabin passengers found by small wreck
ing steamer which the Pacific Mail Com
pany sent out The survivors whose
names have been obtained thus far, are
HI. Albano, H. W. Boyd, j. W. Crew, Mr.
Gutierrez, o. Hanson, Mr.. Laralua, Jose
Morel, T.J. O'Neil, 6. Ramon, Mr.. Ray
mond Mr.. REM, Richardson, Mr. Rolan
q. d. Ross, Mr.. Ruiz, J. A. Salig, NJ Sar-
btlia, MI. Soils, A. J. Sutherland, MI. Tan
gone, John Thornton
.5-. Il ACTIVE SEARCHERS. .
q Manzanillo is wildly excited today over
the fate of the Colima's passengers, ant
while there is general and intense sorrow
over the catastrophe, there is also unpar
allied activity in prosecuting the work o.
searching for survivors and victims, and
comforting those who have already reach
ed this port from the wreck.
Every craft for miles along the coast il
out looking for survivors and bringing
in the many bodies which are being
washed ashore In this, perhaps, the
frantic good will of the people here il
shown best-not a body has been found
that was not instantly surrounded by ma
tives, who toiled for hours in the hope ot
resuscitation, no matter how hopeless the
task.
= Masses were said in rapid succession in
all the Catholic churches this morning
from O'Clock until noon for the success
of the searching parties and for the re-
pose of the souls Of the dead Thousands
who attended these services were con
stantly offering their aid in the work OF
succor.
And while Manzanillo is working an6
mourning at once, news fr1mo the scene o1
the disaster comes to tell what scope
there is for both work and grief.
DURING A STORM.
The i'll fated steamship went to the
bottom during a terrific storm at eight
O'Clock on the morning of Monday last il
latitude 1S degrees, 3S minutes. north
longitude 104 degrees, IA minutes west
She lies about six miles from Cuyutlan.
AS further light is thrown upon the
circumstances attending the wreck it il
plain that she may have been driven up
on the reef that sunk her without having
been damaged by an explosion or even
crippled by an extraordinary accident tt
her machinery.
Captain Talyor, survivors say, actet
with much skill, and all bravery during
the storm, but while he was striving tt
keep safe from both storm and reefs he
was instantly killed by flying SPAR
The first officer and the chief engineer
were killed soon afterward by loosenet
timbers. Thus the men upon whom mos
depended were dead some time before th,
Colima struck the reef.
She had been struggling for hour.
against southeast storm of growins
violence, and was making heavy weathe5
when the wind shifted and blew will
increased force from nearly every point O.
the compass in turn.
HEAVY WAVES.
1t seems from what has been learned
today that the passengers were not ii
their berths when the shock came, as wa:
at first supposed, but that they had long
guessed how desperate was the Colima's
position. The high seas running wher
she struck the reef, it is now believed
account for the failure to utilize more Of
the lifeboats.
So the Colima, her cargo and spars
threatening death to all on board, hel
chief officers already dead at their posts.
crashed upon the reef and pounded hell
bottom out as the seas raised her and let
her fall.
The San Juan did not discover anv
evidence of the wreck until it was
twenty two hours old, and even then the
water was so rough and the coast SC
dangerous that the best her captain could
do was to send out her life RATS and save
those survivors who were still visible.
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