San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-29
The Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY,, NAY %, 1895
ANOTHER STEAMER WRECK.
NINETEEN OF ONE HUNDRED AND
NTNErY-TWO ON BOARD SAVED.
Particulars Meagre-Was the Pa
clfic Mail and Carried a Great
Many Tourists.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2S.-Super-
intendent Schwerin, OF the Pacific
Mail company, late tonight re-
ceived word that the steamer Co.
lima had been wrecked off the
Mexican coast. Fourteen of these
on board were saved. The Colima
carried about thirty-five passen-
gers and the same number in the
crew. 1t is not known how the
wreck occurred and prospects for
getting further particulars tonight
are poor.
The Colima was com manded by
Captain J. T. Taylor, and was an
iron vessel of 1900 tons. She was
built in 1873 by Roach & Sons. OF
Philadelphia, and was owned by
the Pacific Mail company. Store
keeper Richardson, Of the Colima,
was the one who sent the first
news OF the disaster. 1t was he
who sent the message to his father
in-law in this city that he had
been saved. The wreck occurred
between Manzanillo aud AGA
pulco.
The Colima carried a very heavy
cargo of general merchandise and
in addition to cabin passengers
who numbered between thirty
five and fifty, carried a mum Der OF
steerage passengers. There was
probably on the vessel all told
100 people. Supt. Schwerin's in
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message sent to him says the shiu
was wrecked May y and a ships
boat containing five of the crew
and fourteen of the passengers, ar
rived at Manzanillo today, Tues
day. There was a total Of 20 pas
sengers on board.
SAN FRANCISCO, May o.
Assistant superintendent Avery,
of the Pacific Mail, stated to an AS
ISOLATED Press reporter late last
night that the Colima carried 1872
people and only nineteen were
saved. There were forty cabin
passengers, thirty-seven steerage,
forty-three Chinese, and the crew
numbering seventy-two. Most of
the cabin passengers were bound
through to New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 90
Among the cabin passengers were:
c. H. Gushing, G. Cushing, j. L..
Thornton, Miss Bessie Davis.
George Farrell, Mrs. A. Lock and
child, John Stein, Mrs. Charles
Thornton, Louis H. Peters, A. J.
Switzerland, C. H. Orme, j. E.
Roberts, New York; w. Allen, w.
H Bryan, Alfred Alone, Mrs. l..
r. Brew. &. l. Irving, R. F. Greigs-
by, G. V. Gray, F. F. Bee.
The names Of the passengers and
seamen in the small boat were not
given in the dispatch, neither was
there any information about the
remainder Of the passengers and
crew.
The Colima sailed from San
Francisco on the 18th inst. for
Panama and way ports. She car
ried III passengers, forty in the
cabin and thirty-six whites and
forty-six Chinese in the steerage.
The officers and crew numbered
seventy, making in all 1S2 people
on board the steamer. Alex
snder Center, the general agent
of the company, says he
is confident other boats will come
up, but il there is any loss Of life it
will be impossible to give full list
Of the dead, as on her way down she
doubtless picked up other passen-
gers, in addition to those she took
from this city.
The following is list Of passen-
gers and their destinations:
In the cabin: H. G. Creme, j..
e. Roberts, Mrs. J. B. Roberts,
Prof. Harold Whiting, Mrs. w.
Hitting and four children, Mrs.