The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-06-02
The CAPTAINS FAULT.
Horrible Details Of The Sinking Ol The
Steamer COlima.
In IHE TROUGH OF The SEA.
Rescued PsssengersS Say Their Was No Dan
ger UntiI Captain Taylor Tired to Put
the Ship About-fhe Captain and
His oficefs Stood by the vessel.


Examiner his morning publishes the fol-
lowing from its correspondent at Mazat-
Ian, Moxico
AfAZATLAN, May 81, via GALVESTON,
MAY 3l.-Steamer San Juan has arrived
here with twonty-one passengers picked
up Tuesday from the wreck Of the steam
| or COlima From the passengers your
correspondent has learned some Of the
particulars OF the dreadful disaster when
they say happened Monday at noon, when
the COlina was about fOrty-ciGht miles
! out from Manzaniiio, and ten miles OIL
| shore All the rescued were badly bruised
and they were all picked up from pieces
OF wrcckagc and RATS, with the exception
| Of 4. j. Sutherland. who had clung 10 a
boat after it had capsizcd five times ana
drowned all others who attempted 10 cs-
cape from the wreck ia her. All were
anoat, lashed by a fierce gale, and buffet
| ed by angry seas for about twenty
hours. The steamer was heavily laden,
and had largo deck-load OF lumber
when the storm struck her, and she made
bad weather Of IL. the captain having
great difficulty In keeping her head 30 the
| sea The wind Increased In fury until
| 10 is said TO have been the herccst storm
known along his coast in twenty years.
!
and the storm increased, the manasoment
| Of the steamer became impossible. one OF
the seas, a mighty wave, struck her with
| such force that the beams trembled as lI
| they had been struck on a reef and most
| Of the passengers thought this was the
| cause of the shocks.
Still ANOTHER DANGER.
The passengers were pretty badly stun
ned by being pitched about but they
rushed upon the deck Ia a panic. Here
they met another danger. The gale tore
parts of the dcck-iOad of lumber from Us
fastenings and Whrlod the planks about
with appalling violence. Many We're
struck and manned. and at least one
passenger was killed by having his head
crushed by the flying tlmber-. The sur
vivOrs say that the officers OF the steam
or We're brave and active in this crisis.
Captain Taylor stood upon the bridge
with Chicf-Onlcer Grlhitns. At his order
| Griniths ran forward to superintend the
launching of lfe-bCat No. 8. while Second
officer iaughorn. was in charge OF boat
| No g. The latter was successfully launch
| ed and filled with passengers. Then the
ship went down. and Langhorn's boat
was capsized. An In both boats are sup
posed 10 have pcrshod.
He BLEW GOODBYE.
Captain Taylor went down with his
ship and as the vessel sank, he blew
three blasts on the whistle as a goOd-Dy
signal. The engineers and nrcmen went
| down at the posts. Night Clerk Berry
was in his room, and went down with
the vessel. Third officer Hanson was
among the saved. lie sprang from the
ship as II went down, and succeeded in
reaching a piece Of the wreckage. There
he clung for tweuty-four hours, washed
and buffeted by waves. lie saw men and
women sink about him, and was powefiess
TO render aid. lie saw naked and man
| gled bodies floating by and the horror
| of It made him sick. Hanson says that
as the steamer foundered her boilers
burst
The Examiner also publishes the fol-
| lowing special dispatches:
DisrAIcHfs FROM CITY or MEXICO.
CITY OF MEXICO. May I.-The Ex-
amincrs correspondent I'm This capital re-
ceived al S o'clock this morning by spe-
| clal telegram from George Herbert, man
agcr Of ManZanllO and COlima railroad. a
most concise and exact statement of the
cause Of the CollIna wreck that has YET
been made public. Telcgrams, and also
an additional one received this morning
from the Pacific Mail Agent al Manzanli.
10. are as follows.
COL1AfA, May G.-By last nights train
for Manzanillo arrived John NJ Thornton.
a railroad contractor, who is one Of the
passengers saved from the wreck OF the
Colima. and also i've other per-
sons reported alive on the beach al Goa
huania. as fOlloWs-IeWis Paers and Eu-
riQue Wider, nrst-class passengers. Bob
Gonzales, mess boy. and Fred. johnson.
These men came ashore Oh the life-faft
upon which they clambcrel from the
waves. There were originally eight per-
sons on the raft. but three. presumably
scamcn, whose names are unknown. were
washed of Chilberg states that another
raft with five persons was floating about
in the vicinity OF Santelmo, when they
came ashore. Thornton was taking his
sister 10 Guatemala She was among
the lost Thornton gives the following
as the hrst-class passengers whom he
knows to he lost.
Mr.. Roberts and wife from San
diego, Alder, an undertaken. from south
ern California; W. !. Sheayen. bound for
Peru and a German named Stuckmaun.
TnE cAITAN's FAul1.
Messrs Thornton, Chilberg. and the sea-
men say that from the time Of leaving
Manzanillo the sea was head on. aud the
ship made no progress hut MAT there
was no danger until the Captain tried to
put about, and got the ship into the
trough Of the sea. when she went over
Immediately. They declare that the ma
chinery and steering gear were not out
OF order.
The following telegram is from Arno.
Nogei a co, agents OF the Pacific Mai at
Manzan.llO:
Manzanlllo. May 81.
To r. =. Raston. City OF Mexico:
Hope is rising that more lives will be
saved. Steamer Romero Rubero has re-
turned 10 search. and we Will to-day
send the Mazatlan, bearing personnel OF
this agency, TO assist IN the search.
A RIcHMOSDFE on IHE toLIMA.
one Of the officers of the steamer
Colima, which went down in Mexican
waters recently, was George Langhorne.
formerly of this city. At one time he was
first In command of a large san Francisco
steamer, but resigned the position 10
accept The second command on board OF
the Colima.
Mr Langhorne is a relative Of Mrs.
stephen Putney and Mrs. c. ". Wor-
thington, ana numbers Of kilograms have
been sent by Messrs. Putney and WOr-
thlngton but as yet no satisfactory an
sweTs have been received. one OF the
straws on which the family hang their
hope is that In the list OF those saved
published by the New York Herald, was
the name of 'Tanghone." This. Mr.. Put
ney says. is near enough 10 Langhorne
for il to be possibly typographical
error.