The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-06-08
THE STORY OF THE C0LIMO.
Captain Taylor Blew Three Blasts
as the Ship Sank.
Omcers OF the Fated Vessel Did Their
Duty to the Last = One hundred
and Sixty : Two lives
Were Lost.

Mhzat1an, Mex, June 1.-The steamer
San uan has arrived here with the
'Wenty-one passengers picked up on
Tuesday from the wreck of the steamer
Colima. From the passengers the par
ticulars " been learned of the dread
full disaster which happened on Monday
at noon when the Colima was about
twenty miles out of Manzanilla and ten
miles from shore. All the rescued ara
badly bruised. They were all picked
up from pieces of wreckage and RATS
with the exception of A. j. Sutherland,
who a chung to a boat after it had
capsiZed five times and drowned all the
others who attempted to escape from
the wreck In her. The steamer was
heavily laden and had a large deck
load of lumber. The wind increased In
fury until the managing of the steamer
became impossible. At last about noon
her head could no longer be kept up and
she preached to in he trough of the sea,
a mighty wave struck her and she was
thrown on her beam end. Whether be-
cause of the heavy deckload. the shift
ing of coal or cargo or the force of the
storm. the steamer could not right her
self. The gale tore parts of the deck
load of lumber from it's fastenings and
whirled the heavy planks about with
appalling violence. Many were struck
and manned. AT least one passenger
was killed by having his head crushed
by flying timbers.
The survivors say that the officers
Of the steamer We're brave and active
in this crisis. Captain Taylor stood
upon the bridge with the chief officer,
Grimths. At an order Grifiths ran
r. r"y 4, I'D N, p,,nA,.i,,tanI -tLn ln,,t,,1iy,,r
of life BOAT No. 5, while Second Officer
Langhorne was in charge of boat Nc.
3. The latter was successfully launched
and filed with passengers. Then the
ship went down and Langhorne's BOAT
was capsized. All in both boats are
supposed to have persisted. Captain
Taylor went down with the ship, and as
the vessel sank he blew three blasts on
the whistle as n goodby signal. The
engineers and firemen went down at
their posts. Third officer Hanson was
among the saved. He sprang from the
ship as 1t went down and succeeded in
reaching a piece Of wrecKage. There he
chung for tw~enty-four hours, washed
and buffeted by the waves. Two life
RATS We're afloat. on one We're three
men and on another six, including j. A.
Chilberg of Seattle, who seemed to
have been Il leader in the work of
launching the RATS. The Others who
were saved noated ashore on pieces of
wreckage. AT the time OF the capsiZing
OF the Colima the passengers We're gen
orally in their staterooms and went
down with the wreck. No women or
children We're saved.
There is still q chance of encounter
ing more living people from the wreck
and efforts to this end will
lie made today and tomorrow by max.
ing an exhaustive search along tho
shore and among the reefs within ten
miles of the place where the Colima
went down.
Messrs. Thornton, Chiiberg and the
seamen say that from the time of leav-
ing M%anzanilla the sea was head on.
and the ship made no progress, but
that there was no danger until the cap
tain attempted to put about and got
the ship into the trough of the sea,
when she went over Immediately. They
declared that the machinery and steer.
ing gear were not out of order.