The herald., 1895-06-01
LANDED FROM LIFE RATS
Six Additional Survivors
of the COlima
THE VESSEL OVERLOADED
Lives Lost Now Placed at One
Hundred and Eighty-Seven
CENSURE FOR THE COMPANY
CENSURE FOR THE COMPANY
J. E. Chilberg of Seattle Among Those
Rescued.
Another Raft With Five Persons on Board
Heard From
The Mail Company 5 Boats Are Cruising About
the Scene Of the Wreck and Searching
for Possible Survivors
Associated Press Special Wire.


lCITY OF MEXICO, May 31.-The to-
tai ,number of drowned from the Colima
wreck off the coast of Mahzanllio is now
known to be 1s7 persons. Five more
lave been rescued from the wreck. max
ing the total living twenty yslx. The ship
carried 213 persons, and. to all appear
ances these have all been drowned with
the exception of the twenty-sx. The liv-
ing will be sent north as soon as possible,
and seventeen have already taken pass
age for San Francisco. phc accident is
has occurred in Mexican waters, and the
Oolima is complete loss, unless some
nf its cargo can be recovered by divers,
Which will probably be attempted. The
ship was one of the largest and strongest
of the Pacific Mail line plying between
San Francisco and Panama. and was
sunk by striking a coral reef in ensc
fog.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 31.-An Exa M
iner special from the City OF Me xico
says:
Offical dispatches received today bear
out the main facts OF the sinking of the
steamer Colima, as in the special dis
patch to the Examiner from the city of
Colima, via this city. with but the ex-
eeption that the wreck occurred below
tho port and .on the uth-bound journey.
instead of at the harbor entrance.
Up to today the difficulty of getting
messages ovor the wires from the west
coast was unprecedented.
George Herbert manager OF the Mama
milo and Colima railroad wires your
correspondent tonight that it is thought
the passengers rescued by the Romero
Rubelo belong to the family of $. Frol,
and that the Pacific Mail continues its
efforts to rescue all possible. and do
every humane service within its power.
The Romero has found at scene o +
the wreck the body of an unknown
woman, who is apparently of Me xican
origin. Mr.. Herbert says the Barac outa
service under orders frou the govern.
mcnt. All mail for Colima has been
lost. Mr.. Herbert's dispatch says:
Later reports place the scene of the
wreck thirty miles southeast of Man
zanillo and ten to fifteen miles off the
shore at Boca de Alica and is now so 1e-
ported. One woman. a Guatemalan, was
saved and returned to San Francisco by
the San Juan.
Many inquiries have been received in
this city regarding the safety OF indvid-
ual passengers, but all the saved appear
to be in the list heretofore sent.
Professor Whiting OF California is ev-
idently among the drowned, as dilgent
search has revealed nothing of his where
abouts up to tonight.
The forebodlngs of friends OF the pas
sengers and crew OF the Coima were ex-
ceedingy gloomy this morning and few
cherished any hope of the survival of
those hitherto unaccounted for. The Z "a
ciiic Mail Steamship company declared
that it had received absolutely no word
from the scene of the disaster. Mrs. G.
II. Cushing, mother of the two young
men who were passengers, received a
message from the son picked up by The
San Juan dated Mazatlan, as follows:
"Am here returning on San Juan"
Later in the afternoon message was
received by Mrs. Peters, whose son Louis
was passenger for Guatemala. The tel
cgram was dated Guatemala and is un-
signed and it is presumed to be from
Mrs. Peters husband. who resides in
Guatemala. 1t was as follows: Louis
is safe on the Barracuda. A nothcrn
dispatch to a private shipping firm from
Guatemala states that the steamer Bar
racouta, which has been cruising about
the scene of the wreck in search of sur
vivors. has picked up raft with nine
passengers from the Colima Peters being
among the number The Barracuda has
not yet put into port. but the Pacific Mail
officials suggest that the steamer probably
signaled "a smaller vessel which put into
port to convey the news of the rescue to
the nearest town and thence tclegraphed
to Guatemala. The latest details received
here up to 3 clock are contained in the
following message:
COLIMA, Mexico, May 3l.-Six surviv-
ors of the steamer Coiima have arrived
here. They are John 1hurston, J. +.
Chilebcrg OF Seattle. cabin passengers;