Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-30
A VESSEL LOST.
Only t9 of the 1872 People Aboard
Have Been Reported.
The Colima Foundered Off the
Mexican Coast and Fourteen
Passengers and Five Members Of
the Crew Reached Land in a
Boat-The Fate of the Other Pas
sengers Unknown.

| steamship C0llma WIN loZ persons
aboard including passengers and crew,
foundered off the coast of Mexico on
Monday. Fourteen passengers and five
of the crew reached Manzanita, Mex
leo, yesterday and gave the first infor-
nation of the vessels fate. Whether
| the remainder of the passengers and
crew escaped in small boats or went
down with the ship is not known.
Definite but meagre information OF
| the disaster was received at II o'clock
last night by r. H Schwerin, general
manager and vice president of the Pa
cific Mail Steamship Company, to
which corporation the steamship be
| longed. telegram informed Mr..
| Sshwerin that a boat containing four
teen passengers and five members CT
| the crew of the steamer reached Man
anita yesterday and gave the informa-
| tion that the COlima had fOund5re1 the
day before not far from that pOr-.
The Colima sailed from San Fran
cisco on the 18th inst. for Panama AMI
way ports. She carried 112 passen-
gers, 20 in the cabin and 36 whites GnG
46 Chinese in the steerage. The Off
| GERS and crew numbered 20, making
il all 1n2 people on board.
ALEXANDER CENTER,
general agent of the company, says he
is confident that other boats will come
in, but If here was any loss of lie it
viii be impossible to give fun list Cf
the jeaG as OF her way dowi the YES
sci doubtless picked up )th2r Tasfen-
gers in addiuOn to what she took from
this city
Following s the list of passengers
and destination. In the cabin-C. II.
z. Orme, J. e Roberts, Mrs. J. +.
Roberts, Frof Harold Whiting, Mrs.
Whiting and four children, Miss Helen
Mullor. w II. Alder, w. H. Bryan, al
of New York; c.. II. Cushing, Geo S.
Cushing. JohM n. Thornton, Mrs C5as.
! Thornton, Miss Jessie Davis, all cf
! San Jose de Guatemala; J. Z. Ch:ibCrg
and Lang Chong and wife, CcajUUid;
Domingo Abbano and Charles Stuck
man, San Jose; j. w. c. Maxwell and
S. NJ A. Muller of Manatina; Matilda
Phelps, Callao; T. F. Bell, United States
America; George V. Gray MaZatlan;
A. J. Sutherland, san Jose, ricardo
Merlos, Acajutlax; S. F. Grisby, MAJ
allan; c. Irving, Mrs. L. r. Brewer
and family, one servant and children;
Alfred Alonzo, San Benito.
In the steerage-H. V. Uniona, w.
p Buckley, Johannes J. Monwens,
John w. Grey, Gustav A. Lewis, G.. d.
Ross, c. Wolske, J. H. w. Smith, L.
l.. Sangaree Dennis Carey, J. SchOen-
81 II
stantinescO, B. TOreve, G. Rowan, Peter
Golatas, f. Bolalean, John Keller, AL
| bert Morton, Charles Romein, Allen
McMorrill, from New York; G. Farrell,
Mrs A. Clock and children, John Stein,
for San Jose de Guatemala; Antonio
Ramiz, Jose Desame, Jose Antonio
Saliz. Jose Merel. Felix Silvera, c. w.
McCuthin, Mrs. Diaz, T. ]. Orioll.
The names of the officers of the Col
ina are as follows: J. F. Taylor, cap
tain; D. E. Grifiiths George Lang
bourde, 0. Hanson, w. T. Kirby, Wm.
Wolior, T. e. Berry, o. K Richardson,
VIM. a. Smith, Z. d. Reardon, II. Fin
ley, A. Tommerg.
THE COLIMA WAS
a single screw propeller W. an iron
hull. She was built in IS Chester,
Pa, by John Roach & Her tom
mage was 2,9O9 gross al l43 net; her
horse power LOO and speed 1112
knots. This was her 14vth voyage to
Panama. She carried about 1000 tons
of cargo, and was valued at $103 600.
Just how many of the passengers
were aboard the vessel when the acci-
dent occurred which sent her TO the
bottom, cannot be ascertained The
vessel stops at Mazatlan and San Bias
before reaching ManZanila, and pas
sengers were landed and taken on at
both places. The corrected passenger
list can only be made out after the
names Of the passengers who went
ashore and boarded the vessel at these
two points are received by telegraph.
The COlima was due at ManZanilla
on Sunday, the 26th inst. The dis
patches show that the vessel founder
ed on Monday, the 9th, off ManZanilla,
which would indicate that some acct
dent to the machinery occurred which
retarded the progress Of the vessel and
prevented her from reaching the port
of Manzanilla before she fOundered.
San Francisco, May 29.-The officials
of the Pacific Mail persist that they
have received no information. Several
dispatches received all confirm the
tragedy, and vary only in minuteness.
Captain Pitts, of the San Juan, tele-
graphs that he picked up a boat con-
tanning fourteen passengers and five
of the crew of the Colima. They were
taken to Manzanillo and then the
steamar San Juao started ont again in
search of other boats from the Colima,
the presumtion being that the balance
of the passengers and crew were atloat.
The occupants of the boat picked up
were: Cabin ssengers-Dominico
AlbanO, - Cushing, - Thornton,
- Sariaba, Ruiz Steerage pas
sengers-John Crew, II. W. Boyd, An
tonic Rome. r. Rose, S. O'Reill, G..
Rowan. Jose a. Salia, L. L. Zancre.
Crew-O. Hansen. third officer; A. Car
penter, A. K. Richardson, store keeper;
RAYMOND Aviles. J. Morel.
The latest intelligence was in cipher
to a local shipping firm, containing the
statement of third officer Hansen, who
was in charge of the boat picked up.
Hansen stated that about 11:15 o'clock
last night an accident occurred to the
machinery. Hansen had not time TO
investigate the trouble, but he belleY-
ed 2. boiler had burst The COlima was
put about, but began to sink rapidly.
So far as Hansen knows the boat he
commanded was the only which got
clear of the sinking ship. She quickly
foundered, and to avoid suction Han