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sprung leak and foundered and had not
as reported, run upon hidden reef.
"A still later bulletin announced that the
women were in their staterooms and went
down with the ship. The agony it caused
those whose lady friends were in the
disaster can well he imagined. Descrip-
ton is impossible from the fact that those
reading it hastened to hide their grief in
their homes
At o'clock the first definite news of the
day was received. 1t came in cipher from
the Mazatlan agents of the steamship COM
pany, and being translated read as follows:
The San Juan sailed May 81 at A. NJ for San
Francisco carrying sixteen passengers of the
Colima. FERNANDEZ MENDEZ & Co.
The San Juan makes no stops between
Mazatlan and this port. She will pass off
San Diego on the morning of the Sd inst,
and may stand in and show her signals
as the coast steamers frequently do-in
order to be reported to the Merchants
Exchange here. The San Juan, if she
makes schedule time between here and
Mazatlan, should arrive off the heads
about daylight of the 9Th inst. Who are
the passengers she carries is unknown,
save only in the case OF young Gushing.
Last evening the office of the Pacific
Mail Company was kept open, as has been
done ever since the loss of the Colima was
first announced. Passenger Agent Avery
and telegraph operator were on duty till
midnight, but no dispatches were received
and there were but few callers.
If there is happy mother in San Fran
cisco to-day that mother is Mrs. William
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I Peters. who has apartments at the Russ
House.
/ Her son Louis was one of the passengers
on the ill-fated Colima, and for two DAYS
and nights she was a prey to anguish
which can only be understood by the
mothers of the community. Her beloved
son had started for Guatemala to take
charge of his fathers business, so that the
latter might come home for a short vaca-
tion and visit with his family.
"For two days and nights" she said, s'I
| hardly closed my eyes. The picture of that
awful scene burned into my brain, and
turn as [ would the crested and tall,
crumbling waves in the darkness of that
terrible night rose before my mental vision
and their booming sounded in my ears. 1
could not escape the horrible picture, and
if my suspense had lasted much longer I
fear my mind would have become un-
balanced.
"But, OIL the relief that came with that
cablegram. There were only four words.
Louie saved by Barracouta,' but the most
eloquent chapter from the pen of Dumas
could not have filled my heart with such
comfort and joy. Louie is but % years of
age and that was his first voyage Just to
think what the poor boy must have suf-
fered the two days he was afloat
'From late advices learn that he has
been landed at Colima. The general i'm
preston SO far as can judge is that the
accident was due to the unseaworthiness
of the boat 1t is not considered danger
Gus part of the coast where she foundered,
and 1 am told by those well versed in
nautical knowledge of that part of the
coast that the machinery of the boat must
have been badly out of order to render her
SO fatally unmanageable. But 1 thank
| God my boy is safe, and do not forget to
offer silent prayer for those who were
lost and the ones they left behind"
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raft which came ashore at San Telmo, but
three of these lost their hold and were
drowned, as the raft was overturned
several times by lofty waves.
No baggage or other valuables of the
passengers or crew were saved.
Three dead bodies came ashore to-day
near San Telmo. One is that of woman
supposed to be the wife of a jeweler in
Pochutla.
The Mexican steamer Romero Rubio,
which was sent out to search for survivors,
saw the body of another woman, but did
not pick it up.
The crew feels confident that more sur
vivors will be found still clinging to lumber
or RATS.
The shore from San Telmo to Cuyutlena
is strewn with lumber, petroleum, cases
and general wreckage, and the Pacific Mail
steamer Barracuda has been sent I'D from
Acapulco to cruise about for the same pur-
pose as the Rubio.
The San Juan left here on Wednesday
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PRoFEssoR WHIr1NG,s WILLS.
He Took Precautions Before Startling OF
the Fatal Trip.

He Took Precautions Before starttng on
the Fatal Trip.
| OAKLAND, CAL, May H.-Fearing the
Saagers OF the sea and perhaps having q
premonition of disaster, Professor Whiting
| of the University of California, the in
structOr who was drowned in the wreck of
the Colima, left two wills, which were
made just previous to his departure. The
first document provided that in case any,
thing should happen to the family while
on the journey and all were lost the prop
erty, which consisted of lands and securi-
ties in his native home of Cambridge,
Mass, should be given to his mother and
other relatives residing there.
The other provided that in case of acci-
dent and any of the family survived these
should receive the estate.
Professor Whiting appears to have been
coldly practical man, yet with certain
superstition which led him to take all pos
sible precautions before leaving the land
for the perilous voyage to Panama. He
was told by his physicians that he must
take rest from his labors, and decided to
visit his childhood's home with his family,
Thinking that the sea voyage would do
him good Mrs. Whiting proposed that the
journey be made by water. The professor
demurred to this, calling her attention to
the dangers to be encountered, but she
| laughed fondly at his fears, and after q
little consideration he agreed to sail on
| the Colima.
| Then he made the wills, and as further
matter of precaution he sent them to his
mothers lawyer at Cambridge, where they
| had 6nnhflpS0 he os
the wreck had reached the East.
Professor Whiting, while not expressing
any definite fear of disaster, often spoke
OF the dangers that must necessarily be
gone through on such a journey and
expressed some regret that his children,
to whom he was fondly devoted, should be
exposed to them. He told number of
people that he had made the two wills and
forwarded them to his home, SO that in
case anything happened, his family or rela-
tives in the East would have the benefit OF
his belongings. The grief his many
friends at the university and in Berkeley
feel over his death makes them unwilling
to talk of the matter, but number of the
wives and daughters of the other profes-
sors knew of the wills and of his strange
feelings regarding the journey by sea, and
much comment has been excited by the
peculiar circumstances.
Miss Hilgard, daughter of Professor
Hilgard, and Mrs. Wilkinson, wife of the
superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb and
Blind Asylum, heard the wills spoken of,
and, while not imputing any motives other
than were practical ones to the professor IS
action in preparing for the journey as he
| did, have feeling that something must
have warned the professor that he was in
great danger.
"He had a premonition of eviI," said a
lady at gathering at which the matter
was being discussed the day after the news
of the wreck arrived, "for he looked
worried and anxious from the time it was
decided to go by water, though he tried to
| appear cheerful"
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might be found before the truth should be-
come known. Th5s the officials strenu
ously denied, but their words bore little
weight with the anxious few.
In some way it became known that the
steamer San Juan was at Mazatlan, but
scarcely an individual knew how it was
learned.
Across the bay Mrs. c. II. Cushing,
whose two sons were passengers on the
ill-fated steamer, received dispatch from
one of them. Others, friends of the res
cued, received similar messages, but they
were not made public. Mrs. Cushing s
dispatch read:
MAZATLAN, May 80, 1922 P. NJ.
Via Galveston.
MRS. c. Fl. CUSHING, San Francisco-Am here.
Returning on the San Juan.
C. 81. CUSHING JR
Not word was said concerning his
brothers. fate, and the mother is In doubt
whether the omission was made because
he knew nothing or because he knew too
much.
From the dispatch the inference was
drawn that the San Juan, having spent
two days in the search, had abandoned it
and continued her voyage with those she
rescued still on board.
At l o'clock, in the steamer office, the
following bulletin was posted:
DISPATCH TO MRS. PETERS.
Louis is safe. Picked up by the Barracuda.
WILLIAM PETERS.
/ A f1utter of hope passed over the little
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OF the Junior Constitution Club of Lon
don and great traveller. For six months
before the disaster he lived in this city
with friend, f. S. Hutchings. He pur-
chased his ticket for New York in this city
and went to San Francisco to take the
Colima. He has sister, Mrs. Wilson, in
London and friends named Blair, who are
bankers in San Francisco. He had been
around the world three times.
BERKELEY, CAL, May 81. - Mrs.
Helen (instead of Miss Ellen) Muller was a
nursemaid to the children of Mrs. Whit
ing. She had no mother here. Her
parents. if living, are in Germany. Pro-
fessor Writings late residence is on
Dwight way, so that is how Mrs. Muller
happened to live on that street. She was
"a years of age and had lived with the
Whiting family since last August. She
separated from her husband, who is some
where in San Francisco, and has an only
child, who is also in the City.
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL, May 81
John Alder, a brother, and T. J. Kennard,
brother-in-law of w. II. Alder, one of the
Colima's victims, leave Redlands to-mor-
| row morning for the scene of the disaster.
Alder hopes to obtain a history of his
brothers fate, and if possible to recover
the body should it be among the dead.
They go by rail to Guaymas and hope to
reach Manzanillo within four days. Mr..
Alder carried 900 insurance in favor OF
his mother and his sister, Mrs. T. J. Ken
nard.
SANTA CRUZ, CAL, May 31.-It is
thought here that c. L. Coolidge, who is
| reported among the missing from the
| Colima, was former resident of this city.
He is printer and was for some years enl-
ployed in the Sentinel office.
SEATTLE, WASH, May 31.-Later in
formation respecting the Spearin case
demonstrates beyond the shadow of a
doubt that the man who was drowned at
the sinking of the Colima was Window T.
| Spearin of this city. The woman who
passed as his cousin was Matilda Phelps,
known to some of his friends as his wife.
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Additional Details of the Horror the Mexican Coast,
in Which Only ThrtyFour Out of Two
Hundred and Sixteen Escaped.

Coahuayana makes the total saved thirty
four, and they bring hopes of more.
Nowomen or children appear among the
survivors so far, as only strong man
could stand the buffeting of the waves and
the wreckage, Some of those who did sur
vive are so badly bruised and exhausted
that they may die yet, and all the others
are more or less hurt, one having his arm
broken and all showing bruises.
Strenuous efforts were made at once to
cut away some of her rail so. as to let the
extra heavy deckload slip off into the sea,
and at the same time the captain tried to
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for San Francisco with seventeen surviv-
ors.
Many or the Colimas passengers were
bound to New York, whero they were due
on June 21.
The San Juan will reach San Francisco
June 7.
The Colima left San Freseisco on May
1S, passed Mazatlan on Ma "a, San Bias
on the morning of May 25, AID left Manzan-
lilo in the afternoon of May 25.
She then drew % feet of water and met
heavy head winds at once.
The sea grew very rough md it was op-
posite the mouth of the Apiya River, in Is
deg. IS min. N. latitude and q deg. w. longi-
tude, at IL o'clock Monday morning, that
the catastrophe occurred.
Mrs. Brewer, wife of L. r. Brewer of San
Francisco, was lost with her three chill
dren.
On the raft which came ashore at San
Elma were J. E. Childerg of Seattle, Peters
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Clellan, rachman near Coahuayata, says
that people are floating on timbers off San
Telmo and need help. The Pacific Mail
agents Immediately started steamers for
Romero Rub;o and Mazatlan to rescue
them.
Wreckage is strewn all along the coast
Ten cases of petroleum, piano and other
wreckage came ashore at Cuyatlan. Two
bodies are reported to have been picked up
at Paloverde.
The storm was one of unprecedented
severity on this coast.
The Government of the State of Colima
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STRUCK BY A HEAVY WAnE.
The Cargo shifted aud the Doomed Vessel
Vas Lost.


Vas Lost.
MANzANILLO, Mex, May Silvia
Galveston, Texas.) Five more survivors
of the foundered steamship Colma came
ashore to-day near Coahuayana,. a town
some miles further down the coast than
Cuyuela near which the disaster oc-
Cured, and they report other survivors as
still af1oat.
The latest reports received here to-day
of the sinking of t he Pacific Mail liner last
Monday show that while her speed was
slowed down on account of high sea, she
was struck by an unusually heavy wave,
which carried away all her forward houses
and threw her on her beam ends.
In that dangerous position her cargo,
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He reported 17O lives lost, and that the
ship had on board "half million in
American interests" supposedly referring
to goods belonging to American shippers.
He asked whether he should proceed to
the scene of the wreck. RockhiIl in
structed him to do SO at once, and if he
could render any assistance to report 70
the department at once.
A message was also sent to United States
Consul Bartlett at Acapulco to learn
whether he could be of any assistance, and
instructing him to cooperate with the
Consul at Mazatlan. The coast near Man
zanillo, where the Colima stranded. is
wild, and the natives are likely to loot the
ship if prompt steps are not taken to
guard her.
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INSTR UCTIONS TO CONS us.

Told to DO All In Their P0scer to Relieve
SarUirors.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 31.-The
State Department officials are doing all in
their power to relieve the American sur
vivors of the unfortunate steamer Colima.
The first official news of the disaster came
to Assistant Secretary Rockhill Wednes-
day night from United States Consul de
Gina at Mazatlan.
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SEVERELY GEMS URED.

Ouer loading and Bad Placing of the
Cargo Caused the Wreck.
CITY OF MEXICO, MEX, May 81
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company is
severely censured for overlooking and bad
placing of the cargo on the Colima, to
which is attributed the rapid sinking of
the steamer.
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ARE ON THE SAN JUAN,
Sixteen of the Survivors of the
CoIima on the Way to
This City.
Stories That Others Have Been Res
cued Circulated Among the
Anxious.

In this City yesterday diminishing in
terest in the foundered Colima and her
human freight was shown. A few of the
immediate relatives of the missing called
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has established guard along the coastsin
the vicinity of the wreck, and is doing
everything possible to assist in rescuing
the survivors and recovering bodies.
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STORY OF THE DISASTER.

When the Captain Tried to Put About
the Cotfn,a Capsized.
COLIMA, MEXICO, May 31.-Last night
the train for Manzanillo brought John
Thornton and five other survivors of the
Colima disaster. Their names are:
Passengers:
J.E. CHILBERG OF SEATTLE.
PETERS.
IDOR.
Crew:
GONZALES.
FRED JOHNSON.
These men came ashore on o life-raft
which they encountered after the ship
capsized. Originally there were eight per-
sons on the raft, but three, presumably
seamen, were washed off. Their names
are unknown.
Chilberg states that another raft was
floating about in the vicinity of San Telmo
when they came ashore. Thornton was
is among the lost. Thornton says that
among the first-class passengers lost are
the following:
ROBERTS AND WIFE OF SAN DIEGO.
w. III. ADLER AND w. j. SHEA OF
SEATTLE.
MIR. STRUCKMAN.
Thornton, Chilberg and. the seamen all
agree that there was heavy sea from the
time they left Manzanillo. The ship made
no progress, but they were in no danger
until the captain attempted to put about
During this maneuver the ship capsized.
They deny that the machinery or steering
gear was out of order.
Survivors say that all the women and
children were in the staterooms at the
time of the disaster and that all went
down with the steamer. Survivors say
also that Purser Wafer was seen in we'll
manned boat pulling away from the sink
ing steamer toward the shore.
Whether this boat succeeded in reaching
shore at some unfrequented point of the
coast or was lost in the attempt is as yet
conjectural. 1t is hardly probable that it
is still afioat at sea.
A telegram received by American Con-
sui Faden at Manzanillo from Mr. Nc
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OVERL LOADING CAUSED THE COLIr1A'S WRECK

COLI3fA, Mex, May 81 (via City of
Mexico and El Paso).-Over-loading caused
the loss of the Coima. That is the verdict
reached by the Mexican officials who went
to the scene of rescue. The steamship car
ried very heavy cargo, and was unable to
ride out the storm, which was one of the
heaviest which has ever visited this por-
ton of the coast.
The Colima was lost in Is deg. 3S min
north latitude, 104 deg. IA min. west longi-
tude during heavy storm beginning in
the southwest and driving the vessel shore
ward.
Captain J. F. Taylor proved brave
man, and did everything to save the YES
sci which man could do, but during the
height of the storm he was killed by a
falling spar.
Chief Officer D. E. Griffith and Chief
Engineer John P. Ebsen met death in the
same way.
No one was left to manage the Colima,
and she went down.
The steamship had on board at the time
of the wreck 123 passengers and crew of
so men.
rbera ore l,,,or,,, 10 boro hoo- so,,ad.
Cabin passengers
STRABEL.
SUTHERLAND.
CUSHING.
THORNTON.
ALBANo.
oteerage passengers
BOYD.
ROWAN.
ChhDA'
S,NCrrs
oRIEI
RAMOS.
RUIZ.
GUTIERREZo'
MANOELLI.
Ore"-
hANsEN'
~
pICu.pnSoN
FISH
boat which was in cb.-oa ~ pnrser
Walter IS believed tn have been saved but
M deinita inform, a+ior hos heon rooa;rod
conco-n;no -
Tho staanoor po,,aro p,,b;o u,;,h ,,4
n the scena of tho ,vrecp hos re+,,-nod
Sbo bro,,,b+ bool, socl, ot ,,,ai1 I'd souor.l
small articles Hercr renort that ,nonv
hodies were fornd aos+i,, obo,,+ b,,+ +ho+
no living narson was n be coon
A .o,oaro,, hos boar rece;vad from, +bs
beach at CuvutIa announcing that seven
persons have landed there. Their names
are unknown here and cannot now be
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ewthn
eceied the oGc eIedayl
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IDENTIFYING THE VICr1Ms.

Residents Of the Coast Who Perishcd ~,
the Disaster.
LOS ANGELES. CAL, May 31.-The
identity of the passenger C. A. E. Orme.
who went down on the Colima, has been a
mistaken one in the dispatches thus far.
He was wealthy Englshman, q member
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and Wider, first-class passengers, and Rob-
erto Ganzales and Fred Johnson, sailors.
Domingo Albano, also drifted ashore on
the wreckage.
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To Talk Adult India.

Mr.. Ramachandrayya, a convert from
Brahmnism and member Of the mission
church in Guntur for over thirteen years,
is visiting this city. For several years he
was teacher in the high school and col
lege of the Lutheran Church in Guntur.
On his arrival in this country in the latter
part of March he was engaged by the
board of foreign missions of the Lutheran
Church to visit the congregations and
institutions of the church in the interest
Of foreign work. and he will give a series
of free lectures here in the Luther Me-
mortal Church. His first lecture will be
delivered tomorrow evening" and his SUBJ
ject will be 1.-The People Customs and
Costumes of India" On Monday evening
next he will deliver his second lecture, the
subject being The PHILOSOPHERS ard Re-
ligions of India and on Thursday of next
week his third lecture. the subject being
Missions in India" The last lecture will
be delivered on the evening of May q on
"Castes and Women OF India" On Sun
day. May &c, he will preach IN the morning
in st. PauFs Church and in the evening at
the Church of the Reformation. These
lectures are given under the auspices CT
the Lutheran Ministers Association of this
ri
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board of the Fulton, at Nicaragua, that
Walker surrendered to Rear Admiral
Pauldins. The latter officer commended
Lieut. Almy highly for his services in this
crisis, saying of him: HE performed his
part of the work exceedingly well, and is
an officer who can be relied upon at all
times. Lieut.. Amy continued in COM
, mand of the Fulton during and until after
the Paraguay expedition, when he was at
tached to the New York navy yard. He
was commissioned commander in April,
1861, just as the civil war broke out, and
was constantly in command during the
war along the Atlantic coast. While on
this duty, in command of the Connecticut,
he captured and sent in four noted block
ade running steamers, laden with valuable
cargoes. while he ran ashore and destroyed
three others.
Being promoted to captaincy in 1865, he
was placed In command of the Juniata.
and while cruising on the coast of Brazil
he rescued the Brazilian brig America and
her crew from shipwreck, for which he was
| thanked by Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil
After receiving his commission COM
modore in 1859 he was stationed here
the chief signal officer of the navy, and
served as such for two years. He was
made rear admiral in August, 1873, and
at once ordered to the command of our
naval forces in the Pacific Two months
after receiving this assignment a serious
revolution broke out in Panama, and the
city of that name and the railroad crossing
the iSthmuS Were in great Hanger of be-
ing destroyed. Admiral Almy only had
the fenSaCola and Benlcla at hand, but
he took immediate steps to protect the
| property and lives of the residents. He
landed force of men and prevented the
disturbance of European we'll as Amer
lean citizens, and well was the railroad
communication across the isthmus assured
that passengers, freight and specie passed
over 1t during the prevalence of the trou-
BILE without interference molestation.
For this Admiral Amy received the thanks
of the Panama and the Pacific mail COM
panies as well as of all the coasus and
the foreign merchants at Panama. He
was retired under the operation of law
in April, 1877, and two years previously
had been presented by King kalakaua Of
Hawaii with the order of King Kameha-
meha /, in recognition of the courtesies
shown to the king on the occasion of his
visit to the United States.
Admiral Amy had the honor of perform
ing the largest amount of sea service
credited to any officer of the navy, having
seen twenty-seven years and ten months
of this duty, his shore other luty having
been fourteen years and eight months