The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-01

him as a protecting shield. Air came
to him through the broken sides of the
boat. Sutherland says he was on the
weather side of the steamer when she
went on her beam ends, but slid over to
the lee side. and fell into a boat
Another despatch from Colima May 80,
says:-The steamer Colima arrived at
Manzanillo at noon on Sunday, May 26,
Captain Taylor reporting heavy weather
north of port. She left Manzanillo at 4
p NJ, with a crew of eighty and 176 pas
sengers. The steamer was drawing %
feet and had a deck load of lumber live
stock and coal in cases and tanks. Heavy
seas and head winds were encountered
outside the harbor of Manzanillo, and the
boat capsized at 11:20 A. NJ, about fifty
miles southeast of Manzanillo. 1t was
said that the machinery was odt of order.
The vessel had been listing badly, and
the sea began washing over the deck.
carrying away the deckhouse amidships
and the smoking room. 1t is said the
cargo was badly slowed and had shifted
during the passage. The schooners JOS
efina, Albina and Hayes arrived at Man
zanillo, having passed through the same
storm without damage. At the time Of
the capsizing of the Colima the passen-
gers Were generally in their staterooms
and went down with the wreck. No
women or children We're saved. There
is still a chance of encountering more
living people from the wreck and siren
uous efforts to this end will be made
today and tomorrow by making an ex-
haustive search along the shore and
among the reefs within ten miles of the
place where the Colima went down.
ANOTHER VERSION.
A morning paper publishes the follow
ing special despatch:-
CITY OF MEXICO. May 81, 1S95.-Our
correspondent in this capital received at
eight o'clock this morning by special
from George Herbert, manager of the
Manzanillo and Colima Railroad, the
most concise and exact statements of
the cause of the Coli1na wreck that have
yet been made public.
The kilograms and also an additional
one received this morning from the Pa
cific Mail Agent Manzanillo are as fol-
lows
Col;ma May 81.
BY last nights train from Manzanillo
arrived John VI. Thornton, railroad con-
tractor, one of the passengers saved
from the wreck of the Colima, and also
the five persons reported alive on the
beach at Coshuayana, as follows:-
Lewis Paers and Enrique Wider, first
class passengers. and Bob Gonzales. a
mess boy, and Fred Johnson, seaman.
These men came ashore on a life raft
upon which they clambered from the
waves. There were originally eight per-
sons on the raft. but three, presumably
seamen. whose names We're unknown,
were washed off. Mr.. Chilberg states that
another raft with five persons was float
ing about in the vicinity of San Telmo
when they came ashore. Mr.. Thornton
was taking his sister to Guatemala. She
was among the lost. Thornton gives the
following as among the first-class pas-
sengers whom he knows to be lost
Roberts and wife, from San Diego:
Alder, an undertaken from Southern Calf
fornia; W. I. Sheaven. bound for Peru;
and a German named Stuckmann.
TRIED TO PUT ABOUT.
Mesrs Thornton. Chilberg and the sea-
men say that from the time of leaving
Manzanillo the sea was head on and
the ship made no progress, but that
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
machinery and steering gear We're not
out of order. The following is the tele-
gram from Arne, Vogel & Co., the
HuvzusN le TEeIy ogGopd eql 10 sluese
To-
Manzanillo May 81.
To E. P. CASTOR, City of Mexico:-
Hope is rising that more lives may be
saved The steamer Romero Rubere has
returned to the search and we will to-
day send the Mazatlan, bearing the per-
sonnel of this agency. to assist in the
search.