Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-07
HE COLIMA SURVIVORS
Seventeen of Them Have Been
 Landed at San Francisco.
TALES OF TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
The Rescued Passengers Presented a Sorry APpearance-An Say the Wreck Was Due to the Top Heavy Condition of the Ill Eated Steamer.

Tated Steamer.
 SAN FRANCISCO. Juno 7.-Seventeen of the survivors of tho ill fated steamer Co lima arrived in port on the San Juan. When sho donkod, hundreds of friends and relatives of those who went down on the Colima wore assembled awaiting land ing Of tho passengers. Groups of women, with tear stained faces, and knots of anx- ious men implored every one on board for tidingS of the lost, all hoping against hope that there might have been some mis. take in the dispatches and some name omitted among the saved How keen was their disappointment in the fa % of iney- itable aSsusInCe that there was no hope was erinCed in their bitter lamentations
 On the upper deck of the steamer were few happy people. whose pleasure con. trasted sharply with the grief of the be- rcavod. These were tho friends of tho survivors, who were embraced and con gTatulatodht their miraculous rescue
 The COlima survivors who landed at this port arc: Passengers-A. J. Suther- land, (. II. Gushing, J. M. Thornton, P. II. Boyd, Gustav Rowan, Bruno Caid, Jose Antonio Sliz. Jose F. Mariclla, George D. Ross, Louis Sangene. A. J. Oile and Juan A. Ramos Crew-O A. Han. sen. k. A. Willes, Abort Carpenter Ar thur Richardson and Tom Fish. Tho fol lowing landed at Man7atlan: Thomas Saraboa. Domingo Aliabons, Angel Gui- thcz and Carlos Ruise
 Survivors Pared Badly.
 The r. men saved from watory grave when tLCy lad all given up hope of res cue were sorry looking party when they arrived at tho main docks. Some had their arms in sings. Their heads and ears wero swathod in bandagcs They Impcd as they walked and their bruises were plainly ill cvidenco All looked thin and weakly and showed only too plainly tho effects of the terrible strain during the fearful hours when they awaited sue cor.
 The stories of tho survivors all confirm ed t.r tulcgraphiC ar, cunts of the disaster. They agree that the cause of the founder ing Was the tVp heavy condition of the COlima. duo tu her bulky dcckload From tn" beginning of the voyage south, they say, tho vessel acted badly and would not answer her helm.
 Tho storm which sunk her was oncoun- tered about 9 o'clock Monday night May -, and blew furiou~ly during the nCNt II hours The vessel lost stceraCe- way, swung shorewarJ in the teeth of a furious southcastorly gale. when sho lay helpless Eattorcd by tho mighty tidal wave
 The steamer lay helplossly on her side for about lI minutes and then tipped ovCr and sank. The women and children were drown in their staturUoms, where they wcro confined during the gale Those passongcr, who hAd hucn on dock wero thrown into the sea. Many wcro killed and horribly mutilatcd by the lumber on the deck blown by the wind and hurled on thr heads uf tho struggling mon in the water. Tho rHft upon which Gushing. SutLtrInnd Richardson and two others woro ailoat drifted for about 24 hours
 suffering on the Han.
 They gave up all hope until the San Juan hove in sight They attracted her attention by hoisting piece of rod cloth and waving their clothes. On tho raft with tho passengers wore two sailors, Ono sciZCd small Casket of clarot, of which both drank. They became drunk and quarrelsomo To save the lives of the rest on tho raft the men say they were obliged to push one sailor, mad with drink, into the sea, where he drowned
 Tho passengers say thore was no timo to launch tho boats or put on the preservers when they realized tho serious plight of the Colinia, and besides the fury of tho storm made 1t impossible to launch or man tho boats successfully. Those who secured life preservorS got them in the water, and those in tho boat picked up by the san Juan Ciamberod into her as she Eoatcd toward them struggling in the sea