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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-21

NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.
is hereby given that at meeting OF the
Board of Directors of the Mountain
Stone Company Whose principal place OF
business is at 20 Gunner block, Salt Lake
CITY. Utah Territory. held on February
18th, 1895, an assessment of five cents per
share was levied on the capital stock OF
the corporation payable. to its secretary,
Lake City Utah, on or before the 30th
day of March, 1895 ANY stock upon
which the assessment may remain I'M
paid on the 30th day of March, 1895 will
be delinquent and advertised for sale at
public auction. and unless payment is
made before, will be sold on the 30th day
sessment, together with cost of adver-
Using and expense of sale.
II. L. A. CULVER. Secretary,
70 Gunner Block Salt Lake Citv Utah
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-21
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

BRIGHTON AND NORTH POINT IR-
rigation So;mpany; Principal place of
on, Salt Lake County, Utah. Notice is
hereby given that at a meeting of the
Board OF Directors of this corporation
held on February 23d. 1895, an assessment
OF forty (40) cents per share, being as
sessmcpt No. Is, was levied on the capt.
tai stock of the corporation, payable i'm
media tely to the Secretary and Treasurer
Z. 3. Critchlow, at his office, 1871 Hooper
Flock. East First South street, Salt Lake
City, Utah AEy stock upon which
this assessment nay remain unpaid up
on the 18th day of March, 1895, will be
delinquent and advertised for sale at pub
lie auction. and unless payment is made
before will be sold on May 24th, 1895 to
pay delinquent assessment, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of
sale e. 3. CRITCHLOW,
Secretary and Treasurer, Hooper Block.
Salt Lake City. Utah
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-21

Dyspepsia seldom causes death, but
nern1ifs its victims TO live on in misery
Hoods SarsapaTilla cures dyspepsia
ana all stomach troubles
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

Meiggs wharf got abreast of her. On the
Government tug were several newspaper
men, and they interviewed Charles R..
Gushing Jr. before the San Juan reached
the Mail dock. Mr.. Cushings father also
went out on the Government tug and did
what he could to prevent his son from
speaking to the newspaper men.
Indeed, the company itself did all that
was in its power to prevent their employees
from being interviewed by the newspapers
Early in the morning there was roll
called in the mess-room. Captain Pitts
then warned all the men and officers not
to say a word of what had occurred to
anybody. This order was more or less
effective, and made it difficult for the news
gatherers to collect reliable data from Off
cial sources.
1t was nearly i o'clock when the San
Juan reached the Mail dock, and by that
time the confusion on board was so great
that for time it was impossible to get
straight and connected story from anybody.
The steerage passengers had the fewest
friends on shore to greet them. Some of
them had no friends at all, and these, of
course, had the most time to devote to the
newsgatherer.
To a man the steerage passengers are
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

"In lashing one of the stern boats three
or four sailors were very badly bruised and
battered, but they kept at their work until
it was done.
"Just at the time of the collapse it got
very dark, but the real darkness came on
when we were on the wreckage floating
about That was the most awful hurricane
1 ever saw, and I've been through Kansas
cyclones. I never saw anything like it be-
fore. Some things tore loose from the
stern and they were lashed fast by sailors
at imminent risk of their lives. Third
Mate Hansen cut the deckload of lumber
adrift as we were going over, bnt that
made no difference anyhow. Nothing
could have saved US.
'The whole thing went to pieces at
once-say from three to five minutes from
the time the steamer listed until she sunk.
As she rolled, all the while listing deeper,
the lower tier of staterooms were filled
with water by every successive sea
that swept over US. The women
and children were in the rooms
holding on to something to save them
selves from being battered to death by the
pitching and rolling. 1t was utterly i'm
possible to keep your feet even while hold
ing fast with your hands to the railing or
whatever you could grasp. 1 was in one of
the upper row of staterooms. The wood
work creaked and cracked, and the light
came through ceiling and partitions, so
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

that water was dripping, or rather pouring
in upon us; and this was some time before
she went to pieces. I had on my trousers
and shirt after getting up and to keep my
self dry in my stateroom had to put on my
overcoat.
"After we took the last fatal list the
cabins started, and climbed up to the top
of the hurricane deck. I realized then we
were gone. Both rows of cabins and every
thing above the hull crumbled away like
bit of soft brick instantaneously.
was then outside amidships
hanging on to rail behind
the stays, or ropes that stay the masts, and
scrambled into lifeboat. From that point
1 saw the deckhouses and two rows of
staterooms go overheard. A mast fell upon
the boat and showed it into the water.
Then was off the ship. The cabins were
coming toward me, churning and crunch
ing into splinters and crushing the people
who were washed away with them. Above
the roar of the gale I could hear the
screams and yells. The wreckage and men
and women were mixed up in a frightful
mass as the timbers were crushing out
lives before my eyes. No one could have
escaped from that awful mass of broken
timbers that kept on churning and smash
ing in the waves.
"Only the bare hull was left with masts
sticking up, for everything above the iron
was swept away. During the listing even
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

an officer of the steamer, DR.. Robertson's s
underclothing and borrowed gray over
coat to keep himself warm.
Everything was quiet when we were
in Manzanillo harbor," said he. "But i'm
mediately we went out to sea it began to
blow and became rough. Two hours out
the wind began to increase steadily in fury
and kept On getting worse until the steamer
collapsed.
During the night the sea was growing
more and more terrible, but yet it caused
no great excitement aboard except among
some nervous passengers. 1t was only an
hour or two before we went down that any
real signs of alarm could be seen among
the passengers and crew.
professor Whiting was the worst
worked up man in the cabin, and we
young fellows kept 'joshing' him about
his fears. Why, really, five minutes be-
fore the wreck did not realize the danger.
Something like two minutes before the ship
listed the captain told me it was all up.
"'We are going down. said he. "A
cyclone is coming upon u.s.
''Both he and the officers were expecting
a terrible storm and made all preparations
for it. The glass fell down all at once-so
fast it frightened them-and they took the
plugs out of the steering apparatus so as
to be ready to steer from the stern, lashed
down everything securely and took in
awnings.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
WAS anybody TO blame for the wreck of

"Was anybody TO blame for the wreck of
the Colimap'
They have not got a ship that would
have lasted five minutes in that hurricane.
IL was beyond human skill to maneuver a
ship through it successfully. The hurri-
cane, or whatever class of storm it was that
caught the Colima, could crush the stout
est ship afloat as if it were tiny toy. Look
at the terrible force of the waves. They
tore every stitch of clothing off us before
we were ten minutes in the water. Men
and women alike were shorn of covering
by the wind and the sea. When 1 saw
Professor Whiting for the last time all he
had upon him was the shoulders OF his
coat; the rest was torn TO atoms and blown
away. Poor fellow, he had lost his mind.
The terrible fate that fell upon his wife
and chlldren-for he must have known
full wei they were swept down to fright
ful death in that churning wreckage-it
took his senses from him. I believe be
could not realize his position shortly be-
fore he went under the waves
The captain stayed by his post to the
last. Just before the explosion 1 saw him
clinging to the railing of the bridge and as
was whirled away in the water he gave
two faint blows of ,the whistle. But he
never left the bridge. He sank with his
shipn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
ON THE DECK RAFT.
Jose Monica Merel Wound His Arms
Around Floating Tim
her

One of the most distressing chapters of
the wreck of the Colima is that related bv
three Spanish sailors through an inter
prefer in the smoking-room of the San
Juan Yesterday afternoon. The sailors are
Juan Antonio Ramos, Bruno Cedio and
Jose Monica Merel. They are three of a
quartet of Spanish sailors who came up on
the steamer Portland under contract with
the Pacific Mail Company. The contract
bound the company to return the sailors to
their home at Panama from San Francisco.
They were passengers on board the Colima
and bound for Panama. Jose Antonio
Loliz is the last of the four. He was saved
from the wreck, but in such a pitiable
physical condition that he was too ill
yesterday to tell his story.
Attorney ]. B. de Las Casas performed
the good offices of interpreter, and through
him these three tales of the sea were re-
lated. Merel spoke first.
'When she began to roll there was a
panic in the steerage, and everybody there
seemed to realize that something fearful
was going to happen. When she listed
way over on the port side and did not
right again we all rushed for the starboard
or high side of the vessel, which was also
the landward side. l can hardly re-
member what the others did. Every man
was for himself at that time. ALI was
great confusion. The women were scream
ing and some of the men were frantic. I
was on the steerage deck or / should have
gone down with the rest. Many others
were on the deck with me, but the guards
would not allow any more to come up the
gangway, though they fought and pleaded
to be allowed to come up. How terrible
it must have been to have died down in
that hold-to have the waters rush in upon
them and no chance for escape in any
way. Some men on the steerage deck I
saw with life-preservers, but the guards
came after them and cursed them and
made them take off the life-preservers. I
could not get one. What shame it was.
Everybody on board could see that the
ship was going down, everybody except
the officers and the crew. On the port
side tons OF water was washing into the
hold with every sea. 1t was terrible
storm, and the waves were big and high
and angry. Some waves washed clean
over the ship as she lay there in the
trough on her beams end. l heard men
cry out to the captain to cut away the
ucCh-lOdO. one ullSuI udfc IlBntSu tHeHs
But the captain was too sure. Somehow
he could not see the danger as we saw it.
Well, when 1 felt her rolling still
deeper-you could feel her getting deeper
and deeper in the water-I tore off my
coat and shoes and jumped into the water
from the starboard side. l sank, and
when / came up and looked around I
could only see what looked like the width
Il l. I'LL
water. Then the eddies from the sinking
vessel caught me and l was forced down
again. l think it must have been the half
of minute before l could struggle up to
the surface again. looked for the ship.
She was gone. The sea was covered with
floating wreckage. ! caught piece of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

dissatisfied with their treatment on board
the San Juan after their rescue and later
in the day it was learned that the cabin
passengers had not favorable story to tell
of their treatment. Most of the rescued
ones showed visible signs of their physical
sufferings, either by scars or wounds re-
ceived during the wreck or by bandaged
limbs All of them were worn-looking,
and one could almost read the tale of their
sufferings in their pinched faces.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
WHITING WENT CRAZY.
The Graphic and Thrilling Story of
A. J. Sutherland, One Of the
SurViVOrS

Survivors.
A. ]. Sutherland of Seattle, who was one
of the heroes of the Colima disaster, tells
very thrilling and graphic story of his
experiences during the hurricane that
swept the steamer from the seas. Through
out the hours of anxiety and dread he
preserved his mental faculties and OBJ
served all that passed arottd him with an
extraordinary calmness. So much was
inferred from his Interesting narrative
which he gave last night after attending
to correspondence and various details of
business. He was going to Guatemala on
business trip on the Colima, but re-
turned yesterday with the other fortunate
survivors on the San Juan.
When he stepped ashore he looked like a
Southern merchant who had forgotten to
change his clothes to suit the climate. He
wore suit of striped flannel belonging to
the San Juan's purser, soft hat loaned by
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07

United States navy-Louis Zangaree,
seaman of the cruiser Olympia; George D.
Ross, seaman of the cruiser Philadelphia
Crew of the Portland-Bruno Cerda and
Jose M. Moril, firemen; A. Ramos and
Jose Antonio Saliz, seamen, en- route for
Panama
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
LIST OF THE RESCUED.
Who the Men Brought to This
City by the San Juan
Were

The list of rescued brought to this City
by the San Juan yesterday was:
Cabin passengers-C. II. Cushing Jr. Of
Oakland, A. ]. Sutherland, New Western
Hotel.
Steerage-Harry William Boyd, jeweler
Birmingham, Eng; Gustav Rowan, musi.
clan, Ghent, Belgium; T. ]. Oriel, elec-
trician, Stockton.
Officers and crew of the Colima-O. Han.
sen, third officer, 1871 West Mission street;
A. F. Richardson, storekeeper; Raymond
Aviles, engineers storekeeper, La Paz
Mexico; Thomas Friese and Albert Car.
penter, seamen.
The National tribune., 1895-03-14
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON o. THURSDAY

drawing in Moore's Brigade to Buck toms
Ford, Gen. Wright left the army as it was
when the command was turned over to him.
Comrade Powell says that be had no juris-
diction over the line from Buck IONS Ford 10
the left of the infantry line. but admits that
Gen. Torbert might have ordered Moore's
Brigade to picket that part of the line with
out his (the comrade's) knowledge. That
was just what was done. Gen. Torberts
official report shows that Moore's Brigade
did picket that part of the line.
Gen. Gordon says that he saw that the
line where he proposed to cross was guarded
by cavalry picket, which the comrade sug-
gests were of Merritt's command; but this
could not be, as Gen. Merritt resumed his
position on the right of the infantry upon
his return from Front Royal Oct. Is, and
Gen. Gordon did not make his observation
until Oct. II.
1t would, therefore, seem from the FORE
going statement of facts that the story of
the gap in the Union picket-line is very
gauzy, probably as worthy of credence as
were the camp rumors at that time, to the
effect that our pickets had been relieved by
rebels dressed in Federal uniform. 1t may
be classed with the news brought by grape
vine tell-lie-graph, or the information OBJ
tanned from the mendacious intelligent
contraband."-S. A. MCDONALD, 122d N. Y,
Cleveland O,
The National tribune., 1895-03-14
Az som ., III. rebel. came in sight our

As soon Is the rebels came in sight our
line faced about and started back. Just at
this time Sigel came on the field with few
infantry, which must have been the 18th
". Va. He came right up 10 the line OF
artillery. Battery b, 1st Md, was on the
right, with half the battery IN woods.
Sinel ordered it limbered up and taken back
10 the clear ground; then the center battery
did the same and, the left battery In this
position, we repused the first charge of the
rebels A few infantry rallied with the ar
tillery, mostly the 34ih Mass. and 54th Pa.
1t was here that an officer Of the 34th Mass.
STOOD calling 10 the crowds of infantry as they
went to the rear to rally with the cOlors OF
the 34ih, but the response was To - with
the 34th; we are going across the bridge"
And they went, too.
We fought over two miles of ground and
repulsed three charges straight at our front,
for there was no flank movement made by
the rebels. If they had made flank move
ment they would have taken us sure, as not
more than thin skirmish-line stayed to
support u.s.
Had the infantry stood their ground and
charged the rebels after their lines had been
broken, the battle Of New Market would
have been victory for Sigel instead of
Breckenridge. 1t was by Sigel's cool gen.
eralship that he was able to save all his ar
tillery.-JoHN j. GRAY, Battery B, LIST Pa
l. A. Trimmer Pa
The National tribune., 1895-03-14

We were halted about half q mile from
| the Chancellor House, in the rear, on the
road to the U. s. and Ely's Fords. Gen.
| Hooker and his staff came riding along and
| halted directly in front of the battery. Capt
Leppien rode up to him and asked if his
battery could not be sent to the front. Gen.
Hooker answered:
Yes; take it to the Chancellor House."
Hooker looked much distressed, and did
not raise his head when he spoke. This
must have been Immediately after he was
hurt. In about 10 minutes we were at the
Chancellor House Capt. Leppien gave the
order:
action, 'front.' Timber to the reari"
1t was then about 10 o'clock, and every
thing was quiet. Every man was at his
post, and not a rebel was in sight. All at
once their batteries opened on us, some 80
guns in all. Inside of very few minutes
our first, second, and third guns were
sileneed, Capt. Leppien was killed, Lieuts.
Stevens, Twitchel, and Clark were wounded,
and all the gunners and cannoneers on these
guns killed or wounded.
The fourth gun kept firing for about Is
minutes, when shell exploded, killing
Corp1 Graver, who was considered the best
gunner in the battery. The caisson of this
gun was just coming up when piece of the
same shell struck it. 1t blew up, killing
the two horses and wounding number Of
others.
The fifth and sixth guns continued firing
until they ran out of ammunition. The reason
these guns held out so long was that they
were partly protected by the Chancellor
House Second Junior Lieutenant Whit
tier, brave little man, was the only COM
missioned officer who remained on the field.
We spiked our remaining guns, and left
them, and they were retaken afterwards. l
was No. on the fifth gun. 1t was disabled
by shot striking il within.
Gen. Couch's article states that we be-
longed to Meade's Corps, but we belonged to
Robinson's (Second) Division Of the First
Corps. He also states that Lieut.. Edmund
Kirby. of Battery ], 1st U. S. Art, Second
Corps, took command after Capt. Leppien
was killed and the Lieutenants were
wounded. He was killed also, but we sup
posed at the time he was staff officer.
The loss of the battery is given at six
men killed and 10 wounded; AZ horses were
disabled. We Pennsylyanians were de-
tailed into the battery from the both Pa,
COL Thomas M. Bayne, and served our time
with the battery. The both belonged to
the Second Brigade, of Robinson's Division.
/ would like to hear some of the 9Th Ne.
boys recollections of this battle-THoMAs
G. JONES, 1872 Washington avenue, Pitts
hnru pa
The National tribune., 1895-03-14
A FISHY STORY.

Incidents Of the Doubtful Canyon" Fight
Could Not Have Happened, Says a Regu-
lar.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: It ia re-
| freshing to an old Indian fighter of the eos
to read an article on the work done by the
Army before the war on the frontier and
Comrade Don ]. Adams has my thanks for
his graphic account of his battle in Doubt
full Canyon. There are a few statements in
| his narrative which make ones hair stand
on end, if the story is an "actual occur
renee" as he says it is. Having been sta
| toned in New Mexico from 1857 to 1862,
] am at loss to locate the old Pass at Las
Cruces, and still more so to understand how
sentries were placed at stated distances
around it. If there is one thing more than
another that we were taught, it was to stand
on our post until relieved, and when the
sentry on his post hastily rose and disap-
peared," it seems hard we did not have the
description of the court-martial that would
have, as necessity, followed the next day.
/ am aware that in the first part of his
article the comrade locates his story in the
latter years of the war, but Fort Union was
abandoned in 1861, and new fort built
some miles from it, called by another name,
Marcy, / think. So that if his wonderful
LiCutCnduI utu uaiCucu }IOm OTU UNION
it must have been before that date.
Col. Loring and Gen. Candy were in COM
mand of that department at that time
Maj McClay, sitting on his crack box, is q
cOrker. There was no such man in New
Mexico in the military service at that time,
and it is news to me, and / expect to every
other comrade Of the old regiment of
mounted rifles (now Sd Cav. who is now
alive, which, outside of one or two COM
panies of the dragons commanded by Mai.
Sibley, was the only mounted regiment in
the Territory besides the Sd Inf, few COM
panies of the 9Th being at Fort Defiance.
But as the Sergeant was mounted, H. would
have been the former. Maj. McClay calls
the Sergeant to him, and says: Jack, de-
tail you" etc. Who eyer, in Gods world,
in the Army ever heard Major address an
enlisted man by his first name outside of
Comrade Don? don't know, but 1 would
like to see him.
The idea of Sergeant ranking a Lieu
tenant in the old U. s. Army, and being
received as such by post commander, is
simply outrageous, and, Il don't hesitate to
say, never could have occurred. But the
last straw comes when Serg't Jack takes the
command out of the Leftenant's" hands,
hires scout, and tells him, "Your men are
struggling, and not prepared for defense;
put your men in order to protect the Gov
eminent property in your charge" etc.
This takes my breath away-if it did not
the Leftenant's land my only wonder is
that when that funeral service was read in a
choking voice at the funeral next day,
and the command, Ready Aim !-Firel
was given, it was not at the stalwart body of
the redoubtable Sergeant Jack.-WILLIAM
L. SELL, Company Clerk, Co. K, Regular
MID Rifles now Sd Cay.), q. S. A, Sipe
Springs, Tex.