Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-02
II WAS THE HOUR IF NOON When the III-F Fated Colima and Crew Went Down. AS THE GOOD SHIP SANK All the Officers Were at Their Posts of
 Duty. HE CAPTAINS LAST FAREWELL SIGNAL Was Heard Above the Oceans Roar-Fuller Details of How the Accident Oc-
 curred-Some of the Pas
 sengors Talk.
AS THE GOOD SHIP SANK
HE CAPTAINS LAST FAREWELL SIGNAL

San Francisco. June 1.-The Examiner this morning publishes the following from it's correspondent at Mazatlan,. Mexico:
 Mazatlan, May Silvia Galveston, May 31)-The steamer San Juan has arrived here with twenty-one passengers picked up on Tuesday from the wreck or the steamer Colima. From the passen- gers your correspondent has learned some of the particulars of the dreadful disaster which they say happened Mon day at noon, when the Co1ima was apout forty-eight miles out of Manzanillo and ten miles off shore.
 All the rescued are badly bruised. They were all picked up from pieces of wreckage and rafts, with the exception of A. J. Sutherland, who had chung to a boat after 1t capsized five times ana drowned all the others who attempted to escape from the wreck in her. All who were afloat were lashed by the hercest gale of years and buffeted by the angry seas for about twenty-four hours.
 The steamer was heavily laden and had a large deck load of lumber when the storm struck her. She made pao weather for it, the captain having great difficulty in keeping her head to the sea. The W1nQ increased III IuIy uhth II 10 said to have been the f1ercest storm known along this coast in twenty years The sea rose rapidly. The waves washed over the vessel and started the dech load. AS the waves rose and the storm increased the management of the steam CT became impossible. One Of the sea s mighty waves struck her with such force that the beams trembled as if she had struck on a reef, and most of the pasSen- gers thought this the cause of the shocks. The passengers were pretty badly stunned by being pitched about. but rushed upon the deck in panic. Here they met another danger. The gale tore parts of the load of lumber from its fastenings and whiPled heavy blanks about with appalling violence. Many were struck and maimed. At least one passenger was killed by having ms head crushed by flying timbers. q
 The survivors say that the officers of the steamer were brave and active in this crisis Captain Taylor stood upon the bridge with Chief Officer Griff1ths. At an order Griffiths ran forward to sn- perintend the launching of lifeboat No. 5, while Second Officer Langhorn was In charge of boat No. B. The latter was successfully launched land filled with passengers Then the ship went down and Langhorn's boat was capsized. All in both boats are supposed to have per ished.
 Captain Taylor went down with the ship, and as the vessel sank he blew three blasts of the whistle as goodbye signal. The engineers and firemen went down at their posts. Night Clerk Berry was in his room, and went down with the vessel.
 Third Officer Hanson was among the saved. He sprang from the ship as 1t went down, and succeeded in reaching piece of wreckage. There he clung for twenty-four hours, washed and buffeted by the waves. He saw men and women sink about him, and was powerless to render aid. He saw naked and mangled bodies floating by, and the horror of 1t made him sick. Hanson says that as the steamer foundered her boilers bursted.