The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-03
CARGO ON THE DECK.
The Colima Was Top-Heavy and
Was Easily Tipped.
MEXICO FORBIDs SUCH LOADING
Hereafter Vessels With Cargo Slowed
as the Coiima's Was VIII Be
Seized by the Government.

New York, June "A special 70 the
World from Colima. Mexico. says: The
steamer Mazatlan has returned from Ghe
scene OF the Col!ma wreck. Learning a.
Boco de Apica that five more survivors
had been cast ashore at Mafele, she sent
a boat with five sailors to rescue them
The sea was still very rough ar the time,
and as the boat failed TO return it is
thought IL must have capsized in the
breakers. Another of the MaZatlan's
sailors started TO swim ashore, and Il Is
believed that all of the six are on the
beach.
San Francisco, June 2.-The Chronicles
City of Mexico dispatch says that the five
men who were seen yesterday on Block
Point by the steamer Mazatlan have been
rescued by an overland party. Their names
are: Antonio Ramez, j. ONeill, j. a.
Salig, Joseph Moriel and c. II. Gushing.
Colon June 2.-Advices received here as
to the manner of the wreck OF the steam
er Coiima say that a heavy sea struck
the vessel. the cargo was shifted and the
vessel was overturned. Twenty-one peo-
pie are reported saved and 1875 lost.
San Francisco, June 1.-The condition
OF the cargo of the Colma when she left
MaZatlan is an important one, in view of
the kilograms printed yesterday morning.
In these dispatches from three different
sources, come the statements that the
cargo of the Colima shifted. and that the
steamer was topheavy because of the
deck load. These statements came from
survivors who related them on the San
Juan and at Mazatlan, from Manzanilio,
where some OF the survivors remain, and
from information given 10 George Her
bert, manager of the Manzaaillo and &C.
lima rain Dad who has sent much ot the
news ,: the wreck by way Of the City of
NJ aTico. The O. estion is. was he loss of
the Gonna cue &c bad slowing CT cargo
AMI 20 Il lee. lead TOO great sur the
steamer to bear in heavy weather? Alex
ande~ Center. the general agent of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company in this
city, said positively that he does not be-
lieve the statement that the cargo had
shifted during the gale. and he declared
that the Colima was loaded in the best
possible manner and was anything but
overloaded when she passed cut of the
harbOr of San Francisco on May IS. MIR
Center denied that the Colima carried
dynamite. as reported but said there was
quantity of gunpowder on board, which
was stored in the magazine.
city of Mexico. June 2.-The Mexican
government will henceforth take strict
CoGnizanCe of the manner in which all
ships touching at Mexican ports are load
ed The following dispatch was received
today at the war department from the
captain of the port of Acapulco:
Secretary OF War and Navy, Mexico
The Colima~1iisaster was caused by the
heavy deck cargo. AS all of the ships Of
the Pacific Mail Company are loaded in
this manner, and other Mexican boats
have the same custom. l beg of you flu
ture instructions on that point.
'.N - ISAGERRE. Capt. of Port"
orders will be issued. probably on Mon
day. 20 all port inspectors on both coasts,
to detain in the future all national or for
eign boats touching at Mexican ports in
which the cargo is not properly loaded
entirely in the hold. The ships will he held
at the ports-the facts being reported 10
the war department-until the cargo is re-
stored or the matter otherwise arranged.