The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-12
time to be hurled into the sea with
cabin roof. He told his story as fol

lows:
Il found myself in the water with
out knowing just how | got there. BY
some means or another, just when |
had abandoned all hope of being saved
| found myself floating near a portion
of the cabin roof with the others.
Shortly after we got on the raft keg
of claret tloated near and we captured
it. It was long time before we got
tie keg open, and I am sorry it was
ever opened. Ny two friends drank
until they became worse than intoxi-
Gated. One of them laid down and
went to sleep, but the other insisted
upon quarrelling and finally attacked
me. To save my life had to knock
him overheard. The other man
sobered him and I pulled him aboard
again. He began drinking harder
than ever and finally fell overheard
and was drowned. After his COM
panion awoke he behaved himself,
and finally we we're picked up.
las to the cause Of the wreck I can
say but little l really cannot say as
to the list of the ship. I had not gone
to breakfast, and was only up long
enough to notice that it was terrific
hurricane and that the waves were
mountain high
Mr.. Gushing had brother Is years
old on the Colima Nothing has been
heard OF him. The surviving brother
was terribly cut on the head by float
ing lumber, besides being bruised about
the body.
George Rowan, another passenger
bound for New York, agrees in the
main with the statements Of the storm
and added: There was absolutely no
discipline, no organization of any kind.
Everything was a panic. The captain
stood on the bridge. Women screamed
and the children cried clinging in des-
peration to their parents and even to
strangers. As soon as [ became con-
vinced that the ship was doomed |
hastily pulled down some life preserv-
ers When seen bythe steward he or
dered me peremptorily to discontinue
what I was doing. Without paying
any attention to him I kept on pulling
down life belts and passing them out.
AS I am unable to swim / tied one OF
these belts around me and jumped into
the sea- Three times I sank and had
just reached for piece of wreckage
when I was again knocked under by
something, presumably a plank, a
large cash was cut in my head and |
am cut and bruised all over. After
floating about for twenty-four hours
on large piece of wood [ was picked
up"
Sailor \. L. Carpenter was one of the
party on the raft. He says that at
tempts were made to lower the boats,
but failed. All the women We're III
their staterooms, for>none of them ex-
pected that the disaster was upon them.
II think that something shifted be-
low," added Carpenter. THE vessel
ran into a gale from 9 o'clock Monday
night until II o'clock the following
evening" She steered badly, and when
about 80 miles below Manzanlllo she
lost Steerage way, swung her head
arOu1u lew pO1uLS d4o LII AeSo
time than it takes to tell it she careened
over on her beam ends. Scarcely ten
minutes elapsed before she went down.
Captain Taylor died at his post. I was
thrown into the water, and when l
came up I seized a stick of lumber and
foated about until picked up by the
PEOPLE on the raft Such a hurricane
I never before experienced in all my
sea-faring life. Lumber. broken deck
ing and dead bodies drifted by us, and
the horrors of the situation was alone
enough to render us helpless
The following is the list of the sur
vivors landed today: Third Mate Han
sen; R. Avilles, a carpenter; A. Rich
ardson and Thomas Fish, members OF
crew; H. \. Sutherland, G. H. Cush-
ing, j. NJ. Thornton, H. ?. Boyd,
George Rowan, Bruno Cenda, Jos.
Manuel, G.. D. Riss, J. Sanslenes. T.
J. O'Riel and Juan a. Ramos. The
following survivors We're landed at
Mazatlan: Thos. Seralia, D. Olivas,
a. Gtuttierez and Carlos Luitz.