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SAN FRANCISCO, May 81, 1S95.-The
latest special despatch from the City OF
Mexico contains this account OF the aW-
full things of the Colima's fate
CITY OF MEXICO, May Sit is
now seven P. M, and not a single press
despatch has yet been received over uhe
government wires from Manzanillo. The
single wire circuit between M~anzanlilo
and Mexican City has been kept at a
glowing heat all day with official tele-
grams addressed to and sent by Secre-
tary of War Don Pedro j. Hino1osa,
though a few have also been received by
Major r. M. Gorsuch, Mexican represent
native of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company in this capital. The substance
of these dispatches as received up 10
this time is as follows:-
At about eight o'clock on the morn
ing of the 9th, in latitude 1888 north
and longitude 1W.14 west, the Colima was
struck by a powerful wind and was
driven upon a coral reef. and sunk with
a large hole stove in her side near the
prov. Captain ]. F. Taylor, after dis
playing mastery skill in the manage
ment of the vessel, was killed by a fall
ing mast. 1.-THE first pilot and first en-
gineer were also killed n soon after
the boat struck the reef and went down
in 100 'fathoms of water. Nearly twenty
four hours later the coast line steamer
San Juan picked up sixteen survivors
and carried them into the port of Man
izaniIIo. Five others swan ashore at
C-oahuyaunck, and five more-three cabin
passengers and two sailors-were subse-
quentiy rescued by a government boat,
sent by the Pacific Mail at Manzanillo.
One hundred and lightweight persons
are known to have been drowned and
twenty-six were saved.
A special to a morning paper from the
City Of Mexico says
Oficial advices received today bear out
the main statements of the sinking of
the steamer Coima contained in the
special dispatches from the CITY OF
Colima, via this city, with the excep-
ton that the wreck occurred below port
and on the southbound journey, IN
stead Of at the harbor entrance. Up to
today the difficulty of getting messages
over the wires from the west coast was
unprecedented.
The manager of the Manzanillo and Co.
lima Railroad wires our correspondent to-
might that it is thought that three passen-
gers rescued by the Romero Rudello be
long to the family Of S. Flor and that
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company con-
tinues its efforts to rescue and do every
humane service in its power. The Romero
has found at the scene of the wreck the
body of an unknow woman, who is ap-
parently of Mexican origin. Mr.. Herbert
says the chief Baraceata sailed yesterday
for Acapulco to do like service under
orders from the Government.
All mail for Colima has been lost. Mr..
Herbert's despatch says:-Later reports
place the scene of the wreck thirty miles
off shore at Boca de Apiza, and is now
so reported. One woman. a Guatemalan,
was saved n returned to San Francisco
by San Juan.
Prof. Whiting of California is evidently
among the drowned, as a di1igent search
has revealed nothing of his where
abouts up to last night. Official des-
patches are as follows. They were today
given to me by courtesy of General Pedro
Hinojosa, Secretary of the Navy
I called at Chepultepec Castle early
this morning to interview President Diaz
on the probable course of the govern
ment in the general details connected
with the accident. The Chief Executive
is i'll IN bed with Inflammation of the
eyes which has confined him for two
days and prevents This attendance upon
official affairs. i bore to him the first
news of the catastrophe and he
pressed great sorrow. The govern
ment will care for the rescued. The
BURIAL of the dead IS being
proceeded with today. Major R. B.
Gors,5ch, general Mexican representative
of the Pacific Mail and Huntington in
terests in this Republic, has formally
notified the company of the wreck of the
Colima and of interruption of mail and
military carrying service, so far as the
Ship in eq~uestionsis concerned. The diff
Guilty of getting information from the
coast is unprecedented.