The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-31


r. z Chilberg was one OF the hest-known
Of the passengers on board the yesssi He
was a prominent business man of Seattle.
VITO had been sent from the Northern city
TO establish new transportation facilities.
IL uossgble. between Central American
ports and those OF Puget sound. The cof-
fee trade Is a profitable one TO secure. and
fshiIherg was interested in a new steam
ship line He was TO have begun his opera
tons az Acapulco.
TIE sr1Dpose6 fate of Mrs. L. r Brewer,
os this city. together with her three chill
arer Is ore Of the saddeSt features or
The awful disaster. Mr.. Brewer owns
vast coffee plantations in Mexico. Mrs.
Brewer was native Of Guatemala, but
during the past SIX wears has resided IN
this city wifh her children Mr.. Brewer
making occasional Journeys up from the
nlartarions 70 see them. He arrived
here Recently and announced that ne in
tended going 10 Europe late in the sum-
r,aer. Mrs Brewer then decided to take
her three children and visit her southern
home. She took passage on the Colima,
a,-ca-nna fs5esl BY her three youngest
daugh,ers-E Emma. agef years; Marguer-
80 aged zla years, and Olga. the baby,
1s months old. The four elder children
were left at home IN order that their
schooling might not he interrupted. Mr..
Rrav,er has feiegrapned 10 Manzanilio
,,ntsi tonight dsd he cease hoping for the
safety OF his family.
San Francisco, May 9.-As further par
.irulsrs are received concerning the CO.
lima disaster, the outlook for the pass
engers and crew not already reported
saved is very poor The Pacihc Mail
Company shortly before O'Clock tonight
received the following dispatch from its
agents at Manzaniiio:
s.NanzsniIlo. May 30.-Colima foundered,
going down astern, sinking entirely in ten
minutes. No strong wind, only heavy
swell. The same swell caught the Mexi-
can schooners josefnna and Albinna and
the American schooner Hayes. The cap
tains of these schooners report heavy
swells. entering here for safety. Follow
ing Is a corrected list of the saved: Cab
in-Thornton, Sutherland. Gushing, Ruiz,
Gutierrez. Sarahsa. Steerage-Boyd, Zan-
gone. Orlel Ross. Ramon, SaliZ, Rolan
and three men. Crew-Third Officer Han
sen. Storekeeper Richardson, Raymond.
Neral. Have sent steamer to look for
wrecked persons.
"ARNO. VOGEL & CO"
A later dispatch reads: "Colima sunk
in 80 fathoms. Steamer We sent last
night found nobody alive. Three cabin
passengers and two sailors got ashore at
Coahuayana alive. Until now % persons
saved"
that there is hardly any chance of other
passengers being saved. The fact that
the steamer sank in ten minutes would
indicate that only 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 Manzan-
lilo: Having received news that peo-
pie can be saved near the mouth of a
river fifty miles south of here. steamer
has been sent BY this agency. VIII wire
further particulars. The Colima cannot
be got afioat again. She is a total less
Arneid. Vogel & Co.
This dispatch is regarded as the most
hopeful news that has been received
about the disaster today. While previous
kilograms have given little or no hope
that more than one boat load of pas
sengers succeeded in getting away from
the sinking ship. tonights message in
dicates that many more lives may be
saved.
The steamship officials are now conf
dent that the Nanzanfllo was lost south
of Afanxannfo 80 It is fair to presume
that all passengers bound for that point
went ashore before the disaster occurred.
Not only would the ship have been south
OF Manzaniiio If on time when she went
down. but the dispatch received at 10
o'clock says ship has been sent to the
coast TO search for any boats or RATS
that might be floating around laden with
survivors.
The Chronicle has established communi-
cation with Nanzanillo and tonight re-
ceived the following dispatch:
Mexico City, MAY 3o.-It is now p. m.
and not n single press dispatch has yet
been received over the government wires
from Nanzanillo. The single wire circuit
between Manzanillo and Mexico City has
been kept at a glowing heat all day with
official kilograms addressed to and sent
bv the secretary Of war, Dom Pedro ].
Hinojosa. though few have also been re-
cciyei by Mai. r. r. Gorsuch. the Mexi-
can representative of the Pacific Mail in
this capital The gist Of these dispatches
as received mp to this time is as follows:
at about O'Clock on the morning OF
the 9th. in latitude IS deg 80 min north,
and longitude 10i deg IL min. west, the
Coiima was struck by powerful veering
wind and driven upon a coral reef. and
sunk with a large hole STAYED In her side
near the PROV. Capt. j. F. TAYLOR. after
displaying mastery skill In the manage-
mont of his vessel was killed by n falling
mast The first pilot and first engineer
were also killed, and soon after the boat
struck the reef and went down I'm $50 faith
onls of water. Nearly twenty-four hours
y
passing along picked up sixteen survivors
and carried them into the port of Manza-
milo. Five others swan ashore and ffve
more, three cabin passengers and two sail
ors. were subsequently rescued by gov
ernment boat sent out bv the Pacific Mail
Company's agent at Manzaniilo. One hun
dre9 and eighty-eight persons are known
10 have been drowned. and twenty-six
were saved.
The names OF the ehree cabin passengers
rescued by the government boat have not
yet heen learned but the names OF the
Others ara as follows: Tomas Saraa9ia.
Charles Gushing. 1r-, 4. J Sutherland,
K 81. Thornton. Domingo ALbano. ". Fl.
Boyd. G. Rowan, Bruno Cer7a, j. An
tonic Soils. George n. Ross. Luis San
eIenes, 7. j. oriel. Juan Ramos. Carlos
Ruiz. jose Manuel. Angel Gutierrez. and
Sailors Hansen and Ayiles. Carpenter
Rh~hsr1son ard Fish.
The Department ~ war has ordered the
government frigste Oaxaca wsth a CON-
Tiete w-recking outfit ~ proceed from
Msza-iar1 - the scene of tho isSss- er 10
$50 What can no done in the way Of sal
wage. and 20 render any assistance ne-res-
sa~v. Every effort IS being made by ss,e
government % aid al inr reres-ed. The
Cc1iua carried n very valuable cargo,
whihc was fully insured
The Examiners dispatch from The City
Of Mexico says that the Colima was
wrecked thirty miles southeast OF Mama
Milo and six miles from the coast. oppo-
site Cuv7ltIan The wreck occurred at II -
u m. and the Colima lies in . so feet of
water az the bottom Of the ocean TIE
officials report 10 the government; that 1s7
people were drowned and IS saved The
Colina took on Si000oo worth of Mexican
silver a. Mazatian.