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OUT WIN W dIvers nom Germany.

OUT WIN Two divers rom Germ
The first of these was promptly
hauled up half dead, only to be sent
ashore to the hospital raving mad; the
other went down, but returned, declar-
ing that no box was there. Whether
ne really got so far as the lazarette
from which the boxes were taken is
open to doubt. The pressure at such
depth must be positively crushing.
In the accounts of one of the deep
sea dredging expeditions it is men,
toned that when the trawl was raised
from a great depth the pressure proved
to have been such as to crush together
the wood of the trawl beam so that
the knots started out of it.-Boston
Traveller.
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rates on 50 and 100 lines running for q month,
Home Advertisements payable on first of
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In advance. ~ ONLY INITIAL CUTS PRINTED.
Special rates given on larger space and long
cash.
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BY the Secretary or Manager.
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latest Information Obtanabe in Regard to the Disaster
Names of the Rescued.

on the steamer Umatilla and took passage
on the Colima at San Francisco.
Sutherland is carpenter and had re-
sided in this city for some years. The day
before the Umatilla sailed, as a result of a
conversation with Chilberg concerning
Central America, he decided to go there
and locate. Chilberg, who has not been
accounted for, has made two previous trips
to Central America for the purpose of
establishing trade between that country
and Puget Sound. He intended to take
charge of mixed cargo which had been
shipped on the barkentine Eureka. Chill
berg is but % years old and leaves wife.
Chilberg's death means a loss to the COM
merce of Puget Sound. He was on his way
to complete arrangements for establishing
line of vessels between here and Central
America. He had secured valuable con-
cessions from the Guatemalap Government
which greatly favored scheme he had on
hand to establish number of large flour
ing mills there and ship in wheat from the
United States to manufacture -four, thus
saving the heavy duty on flour.
The Guatemalan Government gives Chill
berg credit for inducing leading capitalists
there to introduce electric street cars to re-
place the mule cars. The last Seattle man
to see Chilberg was L. II. Griffith, who
came up from Central America on the
Colima and who shook hands with him in
San Francisco.
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the Mills building. the officials sat aronn,

the Mills building, the officials sat around
long table in moody silence this after
noon awaiting the receipt of further and
more explicit information concerning the
disaster. AS this did not come the offices
were closed at o'clock. The officers of
the company were of the opinion that the
loss of life was not so great as had been
reported. More definite particulars of the
accident are expected tomorrow morning.
A diligent search was made in the New
York and Brooklyn directories, but none
of the persons named as passengers for
New York could be found in them. In the
absence of inquiries as to their safety the
steamship officials thought that none of
the persons supposed to be lost were from
the city of Brooklyn. Secretary w. Fl.
Lane of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany, before closing the office. made the
following statement: 1--WE have received
no details of the disaster. The newspapers
contain a more complete story of the acci-
dent than we have. In the dispatch from
San Francisco no mention is made of the
number of lives supposed to have been
lost, but as the Colima was well supplied
with boats am almost certain that other
boats will turn up.
"The sea in the vicinity of Manzanilla at
this season of the year should be calm, and
if one lifeboat got safely to shore others I
think will also reach land or passing craft
in safety.
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To all who came to inquire nothing
further was given in the way of news.
The clerks said, though, that the office
would be opened during the evening, and
that the company had telegraphed all
along the coast for news of the missing
steamer, but had received no answer.
CRUEL RUMoR.
During the day telegram was received
at the Merchants Exchange saying that
the Colima had been lost and that 16O
people had been drowned. The telegram
was published in the evening papers, and
the people who had their friends on board
tiocked back to the Office of the company
with extras in; their hands and grief de-
picted on their faces; At least 300 people
visited the office during the afternoon, and
nearly every one turned away relieved to
find that the news was only a rumor.
GAS soon as 1 heard of that telegram, ;"
said General Manager Schwerin of the Pa
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John Boylan, Andy Rooney. Mess-boy-D.
Murphy.
Chief steward-William A. Smith; second
steward, William n. Tonton; steerage stew
ard, L. Nelson; stewardess, Miss Minnie
Thomas; storekeeper, A. K. Richardson;
baker, Ed Brett; second baker, Jose Arliy;
butcher, W. Wenluff: cook, ]. Johnson; second
cook, John Weeks; third cook, William Swim /;
messman, A. Hunter; porter, H Calm; pan
tryman, Fidel Capatino.
Steerage watch-James Dinison and Charles
Pope.
Waiters-Frank G. Oliver, Alexander Thomp-
son, Henry Hodges, Y. C. Frances, Charles
Schultz, C. A. Adams, William Wrin George
Paulson, C. A. Chandler and NJ. NJ Rush.
R. P. Schwerin admitted having re-
ceived another telegram, but refused to
make the contents known because he
feared that there was an error in the dis
patch.
81 will give out no news" said Mr..
Schwerin, "until l am absolutely sure that
it is authentic. At time like this one
cannot be too sure of the information
given to the public.'
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lost on the steamship Colima are William
Alder and w. H. Bryan of Redlands. Mr..
Alder is member of the firm of Alder
Bros, undertakers, aged 26, and took a
sea trip to New York for the benefit of his
health. He is a prominent member of the
Masonic fraternity. Bryan has just COM
pleted his apprenticeship in the printers
craft and had gone to San Francisco on a
pleasure trip, with no intention of pro-
ceeding further. He and Mr.. Alder were
old friends, and the latter induced young
Bryan to become his companion on the
trip to the Isthmus. Bryan is an only
child
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ROMANCE OF SAN JOSE,
Vows of a Contract Marriage
Severed by a Decree of
Divorce.
s. A. Beggs and His San Francisco
Bride Had Agreed to Always
Live Apart.

SAN JOSE, CAL, May 29.-The divorce
suit of S. A. Beggs against Eta NJ. Knowl-
on-Beggsgof San Francisco came up before
Judge Reynolds this afternoon, and de-
cree was entered for the plaintiff, the de-
fendant defaulting. Eta NJ. Knowlton is
a daughter of Professor Knowlton of San
Francisco. A year ago she spent the sum-
mer in the vicinity of Alma While there
she became acquainted with Beggs, and
before she returned home they had en-
tered into a contract marriage. A queer
stipulation in the contract was that they
should never live together.
In granting the divorce Judge Reynolds
censured the parties for bringing such
matter into court, and declared the con-
tract null and void. G. Knight White of
San Francisco represented the defendant.
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her propeller at Cerros Island, off the coast

her propeller at Cerros Island, off the coast
OF Lower California. She was in command
OF Captain Hudson at the time and was
towed to this City by the Arizona, Captain
Van Sice. She sailed for Australia in Sep
tember, 1875. On the trip across the ocean
she broke her crankshaft and lay in Sydney
until March, 1876. when she sailed with
passengers to connect with the steamer
Granada at Kandava, Fiji islands. At that
port she collided with the Granada, nearly
sinking her. From Kandava she went to
the New Zealand coast, returning to San
Francisco later in the year. Her latest
mishap was collision with the Granada,
since which time she has been considered
a very lucky ship.
"The Colima came off the drydock just
before she sailed" said United States In
spector of Hulls Talbot yesterday "She
had new propeller put in her and an in
spection was made of her machinery,
which showed it to be in perfect order.
81 have heard it rumored that the vessel
was sunk by an accident to the machinery,
but at the Pacific Mail Office they have not
received confirmation of the report. There
is one way in which the machinery might
have been responsible for the accident.
The connecting rod may have broken near
the cross-head, dropped down into the
crank pin and been driven through the
bottom of the ship. The steamer was well
equipped with boats. She had four life
boats, % feet in length, each capable OF
holding 45 people; two 23-foot boats, two
21-foot boats and one II feet in length, be-
sides two life RATS"
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Is the Oldest continuous officer in the line,
having been there steadily for over twenty
years. He is one of the most courteous
and competent men in the business. He
is married and has two daughters.
William A. Smith is the oldest steward
in the service. He has made ITO trips in
the Colima. this last voyage being the
10th of that vessel. Harry Tainton, the
known on the coast, having been for
many years in the employ of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company.
PROFESSOR wHITINa's CAREER.
Among the others who are said to be
lost, and the report of whose death has
| caused a gloom of sadness to be cast over
Berkeley, were Professor Harold Whiting,
his wife and four children-William, 8
years of age; Rose, 6; Julia, 8, and baby
Lydia, year and 10 months old.
Professor Whiting was born in Roxbury,
Mass, in 1855, where he received his pre-
liminary education. Upon the COM
pletion of his high school course
the family moved to Cambridge,
where he attended college, receiving
the degree of ALB. at Harvard in III, gradu-
ating in the same class with Professor Iry-
ing Stringham, head of the department of
mathematics at the University of Califor-
MIA.
Soon after his graduation he was made
an instructor in the department of physics
at Harvard, which position he held for
only short time, and received the degree
Phi b. in '84, for the successful completion
of advanced work.
At the death of his father, about the
time of his graduating from college, he
fell heir to large estate, which has been a
source of considerable income to him.
In order to fit himself more thoroughly
for his chosen work, that of a professor Of
physics, he went to Germany soon after
the death of his father and studied for
year. After his return he was married in
Boston to Miss Dana, who was 81 years
of age at the time of her death.
In 1892 he was called to the University
of California to accept the chair of assist
ant professor in the department o.
physics. and was advanced to the position
of associate professor in '93, which
position he held until the close of las,
semester, May 15.
His parents are dead, but he has sister
and bro ther living at Plymouth, where q
large part of his estate is situated.
The family were bound for Cambridge,
Mass, where the professor proposed to de.
vote his time to the publication of works
on physics. With that end in view he re-
signed his position at the State University.
He wrote several works on physics, some
of which are now in use in certain of the
high schools of the State
The nursemaid, Mrs. Helen Miller, who
accompanied them on the steamer, leaves
an only child in San Francisco.
| JUST OFF THE DRYDooK.
| The steamer Colima was built at Chester,
Pa, in 1873, ,and was brought to this coast in
| 1874 by Captain Griffith, arriving here on
February Is. In the same year she broke
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cific Mail Company, 81 telegraphed to Sec.
retary Lane of the campany. He sent back
an answer to the effect that it was sent out
by the New York Exchange on a rumor.
All the news which has been received in
New York has gone there from San Fran
cisco. We have wired to our agents at Mazat-
Ian, San Bias and ManzanilIo to get all the
news possible, and to spare no expense in
doing so, and telegraph to us immediately.
Up to the present time we have received
no word from any place. John T. Wright
and Mr.. Proll, two merchants of the City,
who have interests along the Mexican and
Central American coasts. have telegraphed
to their agents, and neither has received
any answer.
''It is a most peculiar state of affairs.
There is no doubt that something has hap
pened to the Colima, but we are as much
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John p Ebberson, Surgeon w. T. Kirby, Freight
Clerk T. E. Berry, Second Officer George Lang
horne, Third Officer o. Hansen, Carpenter John
Steen, Quartermasters Charles Haserstron, w.
Smith, NJ. Sussman, G. Morginson; Boatswain
G. Fillmore.
seamen-A. Carpenter, A. Hansen, A. Santa
Maria, J. Martin, Sikman, S. f. Peterson,
Fred Johnson, S. S. Pavlotos, F. Fircen, Jose
Pequerof, Charles Monti, Messboy R. Gonzalez.
First Assistant Engineer Ed D. Riorden, Sec
ond Assistant Engineer H. Finley, Third AS
sistant Engineer d. Tounnerig.
In charge of the ice engines-Jacob Render,
Thomas Gray.
Oilers-S. J. Dorgan, w. H. Mahoney, w. j.
Renwick-
Firemen-Andy o'Neil, J. Mccarthy, J. Han
non. J. Hackett, William McMurry, J. Daily,
Chris Sherlock, d. Daily. oal-passers-Archie
Dow, ]. Kenny, Raymond Avilles, j. Lamb,
John Punman, f. Mcdonald, G.. Rodengui,
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merchant of this City, and his brother
Charles was one of the crew of the Colima.
He had been captain in Italy, but being
unable to- find suitable occupation in San
Francisco he had shipped before the mast
on the steamers last trip. Among other
visitors at the office were two lady friends
of the wife of Second Steward Ivinton. An
old man named Irving went down to learn
if the stories in the evening papers were
true. His daughter was passenger on
the ill-fated steamer.
oLD-TIME OFFICERS.
Captain John T, Taylor of the missing
steamer entered the employ of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company over twenty
years ago. In fact. his name appears as
chief officer on the company's boo more
than two decades ago. He eworked his way
up in the service until he was made cap
tain about four years ago. He stands very
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Anxiety of Residents of This City Who Have Friends
the Ill=Fated VESSEL

at sea regarding the nature of the trouble
as anybody else. Captain Pitts of the San
Juan no doubt had left Manzanillo on his
way north when he picked up the boat
with the eighteen men in it. AS soon as
he telegraphed to us I think he went right
out to look for other boats"
Mr. Schwerin was asked as to the con-
tents of the dispatch he had received in
connection with the information as to the
names of those who were saved.
81 know that there is a mistake in that"
he said, (which was made in the trans
mission of the message. have wired back
to have it repeated, with all the particulars
which can be gathered up. That is what 1
am waiting for"
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A whole day passed before the first news
of the foundering of the Pacific Mail
steamer Colima in mid-ocean was given to
the public by the press, and not a single
scrap of information reached here of the
ill-starred vessel. All day yesterday the
offices of the Pacific Mail Company and
the Mail dock were thronged by anxious
friends and relatives, all eager for the
slightest information which might bring
them either comfort or the assurance that
the time to hope had passed.
But not a tick sounded over the tele-
graph wire which stretched from here to
Mazatlan, San Bias and Manzanillo Two
lines were run into the Pacific Mail Office,
but they brought no information that was
given to the public.
A telegram received the previous night
was given out for publication. 1t gave the
names of eighteen persons who were saved.
This was but poor consolation to the
friends of the 200 or more people who are
known to have sailed away from this port
IN the Colima, and many of them fingered
about the Mail Company's Office until late
at night.
General Manager Schwerin received a
telegram the night before in conjunction
to make known its contents, on the ground
that there was an error in it.
What the nature of the message held
back is can only be conjectured and it
would seem to augur i'll for the passengers
who have not yet been heard from. All
sorts of rumors were afoat, but none of
them could be reduced to definite shape,
and when the Office closed at midnight the
public was no wiser than in the morning.
The Associated Press telegraphed to all
its correspondents in Mazatlan, San Bias
and Manzanillo, and even to the survivors
of the wreck, but not a line was returned
from soul. The loss of the Colima is en-
veloped in mystery and the fate of the
passengers is shrouded in doubt.
A telegram was sent by Manager
Schwerin on Tuesday night to the steamer
Barracuda at Acapulco to go in search OF
3 boats which may have put off from the
lost Colima. The San Juan is also in
search of the boats.
LIST OF THE RESCUED.
All day yesterday the offices of the
Pacific Mail Company at the corner of
Market and First streets were besieged by
the friends and relatives of those on board
the Colima and the Mail dock was also
) visited by crowds. At the latter place the
anxious inquirers were directed to the
Office, where Messrs. Schwerin and Center,
Chief Clerk Virgins and Passenger
Agent Avery were kept busy answering
questions. These gentlemen had little
consolation to offer, for the only piece of
news which was given out during the day
was a list of those known to be saved. The
list read as follows:
Cabin passengers:
CUSHING.
A. J. SUTHERLAND.
DoAiNeo ALBANo.
SARABIA.
RUIZ.
THORNTON.
Steerage passengers:
H. W. BoYD.
7. J. ORIEL.
u. D. Ross.
SAILS.
RAMON.
L. L. ZANeERIE.
Crew:
ANsoN. probably Third Officer HANSEN. }
CARPENTER.
RAYMOND.
RICHARDSON.
MoRELL.
The full list of the officers and crew is as
follows:
THE coLIMAs CREW.
Captain John F. Taylor, Chief Officer D. E.
Grifiths, Purser William Wafer, Chief Engineer
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was Mrs E. c. Brainard, who went away
in the Colima as governess to the three
children of Mrs. l.. r. Brewer. There was
no more information for them than for
any one else and all the comfort that could
be given to them was the uncertainty Of
hope.
Among the passengers were E. ].
Roberts and wife of San Diego. Mr..
Roberts is retired capitalist, who was
formerly in Utica, N. Y. He married
Miss Clara Henley, the daughter of Police
Justice Henley of Sacramento, about ten
years ago and had been in San Diego for
the past five years.
V. w. Monti was another caller at the
iail Company's office. He is an Italian
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From photograph by Webster, Oakland.

high with his employers, being considered
a very efficient officer. He has wife in
this City.
D. E. Criffiths, first officer of the Colima,
is another old-timer in the service. It is
many years since he made his first voyage
on this coast, but in the interim he was in
command of the Honduras when she was
lost on Lempa Shoal, off the coast OF Sal
vador, and was afterward in the Brazilian
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MAP SHOWING

lO5

Nothing is known by officials of the COM
pany in this. city about the passengers.
They were all booked at San Francisco,
and beyond their destination we at this end
OF the line know absolutely nothing about
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narrow gauge from Campbell to Los Gatos,
so that east-bound shipments can be
loaded direct on broad-gauge cars. A
committee has been appointed to confer
with Southern Pacific officials in regard to
matter.
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mail line. He returned to the Mail Com.

mail line. He returned to the Mail Com
pany about four yeara ago.
George Langhorne, the second officer, is
well known in this port, and is a very pop
ular fellow and a splendid officer. He has
only been in the service few years, hav-
ing at one time been in command of the
steamer Arago, plying between this City
and Coos Bay.
William Water. purser Of the steamer,
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THEY ARE HOPEFUL.
Oficials of the Company in New York
Know Little About the
Wreck

NEW YORK, N. Y, May 29.-The Off
cials of the Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany here know little about the loss of
the Colima beyond what is contained in
the press dispatches. They have no exact
knowledge of the cause of the disaster or
the number of lives lost. At the office of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, in
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them. In the absence of definite informa-
ton am unable to explain the accident,
but imagine that it must have been caused
by the machinery breaking down."
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SEATTLE PASSENGERS.
Chilberg and Sutherland Left the City
on the Sound for Central
America.

SEATTLE, WASH, May 2S.-Edward
Chilberg and A. j. Sutherland, the two
Seattle passengers aboard the Colima
when she foundered, left this city May Is