The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-30
.APACIFIC MAIL STEAMER LOST.
OVER $50 PERSONS SUPPOSED To
HAVE GONE DOWN WITH HER.

Boat Lands nt ManzaniIIO with
Seven cabin Passengers, seven
Sterragc Passengers and Five Ot
the Crew-None of the $50 Persons
Composing the Remainder of the
Passengers and Crew Heard From.
San Francisco. May 29.-The Pacific mall
steamship Colima was wrecked between
Manaarla and Acapulco on May q, and
the present indications are that over 80
persons perished. only nineteen are known
TO have been saved. The Colima was an
iron vessel Of 1906 tons burden. She was
built by Roach of Philadelphia. and sailed
from this city on the 18th inst. in command
OF Capt. j. +. Taylor. Her other officers
were: ID. +. Graffths. first officer; George
Langham, second officer: o. Hausen, third
officer; l.. w. 4. Kirby, surgeon, 4. T.
Berry, freight clerk: A. X Richardson.
storekeeper; William A. Smith. chief en-
gneer; f. G. Reardon. first en-.
gineer; II. Finley, second engineer; f.
Tomnerga, second engineer. There were
forty cabin passengers, thirty-six steerage
passengers, forty Chinese and seventy Of
hcers and crew. The news of the disaster
reached this city through a dispatch re-
ceived by the agents of the Pacific Mail
Company. One of the steamers small
boats. containing fourteen passengers and
fve of the crew, reached the Mexican
coast, ana 1t was this party that telegraph
ed the news OF the wreck. None OF the re-
naming 100 passengers and crew have been
heard Of.
Shortly after the dispatch from Rich
ardson was received telegram was re-
ceived from the company's agent at Man
zanillo TO the effect that the ship had
gone down and that fourteen passengers
and Ave Of the crew had reached shore in
a small boat
Just how many passengers were aboard
the vessel when the accident occurred
which sent her TO the bottom cannot be
ascertained at present The vessel stops
at Mazatlan and San Bias before reach
Ing Manzanillo and passengers were landed
and taken on at both ports.
The corrected passenger list can only be
made out when the names Of the pas
sengers who went ashore and boarded the
vessels at those two ports are received.
The Colima was bound for Panama, and
was due at ManzanilIo on Sunday, May 20.
The dispatches show that the vessel
foundered on Monday. May q. off Man
zanillo, which would indicate that proba-
bly, some accident to the machinery oc-
CURED which retarded the progress Of the
vessel and prevented her from reaching
Manzanillo before she foundered The
vessel had six lifeboats which hung from
davits ready to be launched at a mo-
ments notice. and II Is thought that all
Of these could have been launched, no
matter how rapidly the vessel sank
The telegram received by the company's
agent only accounts for one boat and the
fact that more had not arrived at Manzan-
lilo at the time the dispatch was sent Is
the only indication that the loss of life
may have been very great
Alexander Center, the general agent of
the company. says he is confident that
other boats Will come, but if there was
any loss of life II will be impossible to give
a full list of the dead, as on it's way down
the vessel doubtless picked up other pas
sengers in addition to those she took from
this city.
has been advised that the following pas
sengeps and crew were landed at Man
zanillo by the first boat:
Cabin-Cushing, Thornton. Domingo.
Albano, A. j. Sutherland, Baralua and
Rinz.
steerage-J. Crew. d. Ross. II. w. Boyd.
Anto Ramiz, G. Rowan, Joseph Salig and
r. j. ONeil.
Crew--Anson. Carpenter. Richardson,
Raymond and Morrel.
In the passenger list all of those saved
eppear as belonging at San Jose de Guate-
mala. Richardson Is the ships storekeep-
er and the first intelligence of the wreck
came from him.
The boat containing the rescued men
was picked up at sea by the steamer San
Juan, northbound 10 this city from Cen
trail American ports. She Immediately
put into Manzanillo with the saved, and
according to dispatches since received
at once went TO sea again in search Of
other boats.
Immediately upon the receipt here of
the news, the Pacific Mail Company sent
a dispatch to their agents at Acapulco to
send the steamer Barracott, which had
just arrived there from Pomona, to make
a thorough search for the five other
boats, which II is thought are either ahoat
with the passengers and crew. or on the
coast near the scene OF the disaster.
The latest concerning the disaster is a
private message, which reports that there
is a possibility that several more boats
are adrift or have landed on the coast
The disaster occurred about fifty miles
from Manzanillo and between that port
and Punta San Telmo, bend in the South
Mexican coast.
The Colima had been out several hours
when the accident occurred to her machin-
cry which caused her to spring a leak. She
filled quickly and It being night and all the
passengers having turned in for the night
great difficulty was encountered in rousing
them. Confusion and wild disorder follow
ed One boat was lowered and five swung
out, but as far as is known the one boat
was the only one that got good distance
from the ship before she went down. 1t
was impossible to see whether the other
boats pulled away before being sucked un-
der by the sinking vessel or not. All of the
rescued passengers lost their clothing and
baggage.