The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-30

gre and unsatisfactory advices have
been received here today regarding
the laundering of the Pacific Mail
company's steamer at Manzanillo,
Mexico, last night The officials of the
Pacific Mail persist in the statement
that they have received no informa-
ton Of the wreck of the steamer, and
they have tried to discredit entirely
the statement of the disaster Several
dispatches have been received by the
Merchants Exchange, and by private
shipping firms, all confirming the tale
CT the ocean tragedy, and varying
only IL the miputeneSs of the informa-
9 ton conveyed.
Captain Pitts, of the steamer San
Juan, telegraphed this morning that
he had picked up a boat containing
nineteen pers 0ns, fourteen of whom
We're passengers and five members of
the crew of the Coiima The rescued
boat load was taken to Menzanillo,
and then the steamer San Juan
started out again in search of other
boats from the Colima, the presump-
ticn being that the balance of the
passengers and crew were af1oat in
the other seven boats Of the Colima
The occupants of the boat picked up
were as follows:
y Cabin Passengers.
Aesnigo 4Albano.
AS Gushing.
! Thornton
4. J, Sutherland.
- Sarabia.
Ruiz.
Storage Passengers.
John ". Crew.
H w. Boyd.
Antonio Romez.
G. D. Ross.
S. ]. Oriel.
C. Rowan.
Jose A. SaliZ.
L. l. Zangerie.
o. Hansen third officer)
a. Carpenter.
a. K. Richardson (stosekeeper)
Raymond AvileS and
J. Morel
The names Sarabia and Ruiz do not
appear in the steamers list Of pasSen-
geDs sailing from this port, the pre-
afnption being that they Joined the
steamer at Mazat1al. There were two
Cushings on board, brothers, and a
lady and gentleman, each named
Thornton No initials of survivors
were given in the brief telegram.
Wild Scenes Followed.
The latest intelligence regarding the
disaster received here was in cipher
message TO an official shipping firm,
containing the statement of Third
Officer Hansen, who was in charge of
the boat picked up. Hansen stated that
about 11:15 last night as the Colima
was about 30 miles from Manzanille
and between that port and Punta San
Telmo, an accident occurred to her
machinery. Hansen had not time to in
sgestigate the trouble, but believed a
boiler had burst. The Colima was put
about, but began to sink rapidly.
scene of confusion and wild disorder
followed One boat was lowered and
fice others swung out, but so far as
Hansen knows, the boat he command
edNEgas the only one which got clear
of Yhe sinking ship. She quickly
sens boat quickly pulled clear, and
the night being dark, it was impossi-
bic TO tell whether the other boats
pulled away from the wreck or not.
If these boats only got clear away,
the calmness of the sea and the low
sandy beach twenty miles distant
should enable them to effect sare
landing in few hours. AS the passen- |
gers were all asleep, however, Hansen
fears that few escaped from the rapid
ly-filling steamer. One hundred and
sixty passengers and crew are still IN
accounted for
The following passengers from San
Francisco landed safely at Mazatlan |
before the Colima proceeded towards !
Manzanillo:
E. McCutchen,
w. c. McCutchen.
J. w c. Maxwell
H. NJ. A. Miller.
T. F. Bell.
u. S. American.
G. V. Gray and
r. F. Grisby.
fearful Inquiries.
All day the officers of the Pacific
Mail and of the telegraph companies
and newspapers have been filled with |
anxious friends of passengers and
crew, making fearful inquiries about
their friends. Many of the scenes were
r57ftiful in the extreme, and the most
eazomy forebodings prevailed, despite
ffA accurances of Pacific Mail officials
4flaI the Colima's machinery was in