Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-30
THIRD EDITION.
FURTHER DETAILS
OF THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER cotlMA
It Is Possible That Other Boats Are hloat and the List of the Saved
 May Swell.

San Francisco, May 29.-The Pacific Mail Steamship company has been ad- vised that the following passengers and crew were landed at Manzanillo by the first boat: Cabn-Cushing Thornton, Domingo, Albano, A. J. Sutherland La Rarula and Rinz Steerage-J ". Crew, D. Ross, H. w. Boyd. Anto Ranliz, G. Rowan, Joseph Salig. T. N. O'Neil. Crew-Aason, carpenter; Richardson, Raymond, Morril.
 Tn the passenger list all Of those saved appears as belonging at San Jose de Guatemala. Richardson is the ship storekeeper and the first intelligence of the wreck came from him.
 Shortly alter the dispatch from Rich ardson was received a telegram was re- ceived from the company agent at ManZanillo to the effect that the ship had gone down and that fourteen pas sengers and five of the crew had reached shore in a small boat. Just how many passengers were aboard the vessel when the accident occurred which sent her to the bottom cannot be aScertained at present. The vessel stops at MaZatlan and San Bias before reaching Manzanillo and passengers were landed and taken on at both ports.
 The correct passenger list can only be made out when the names of the passen- gers who went ashore and boarded the vessel at those two ports are received.
 The Colima was bound for Panama, pnd was due at Manzanillo on Sunday, the 18th instant. The dispatch show that the vessel foundered on Monday, the 27th, off Manzanilo, which would in- dicate that probably some accident to the machinery occurred which retarded the progress of the vessel and prevented her reaching Manzanillo before she foundered. The vessel had six life boats, which hung from davitS ready to be launched at a moments notice, and it Is thought that all these have been launched,no matter how rapidly the yes Sel sank.
 The telegram received by the com panys agent only accounts for one boat, and the fact that no more had arrived at Manzanillo at the time the dispatch was sent is the only indication that the loss of life may have been very great. Alexander Center, general agent for the company, says he is confident that other boats will come, but If there was any loss of life it would be impossible to give full list of the dead, as on its way down the vessel doubtless picked up other passengers in addition to those she took from this city.
 The boat containing the rescued men was picked up at sea by the steamer Sa4sl Juan, northbound to this city from Cen tral American ports. She immediately put Into Manzanillo with the saved and according to dispatches received at once went to sea again in search of other boats.
 Immediately upon the receipt here of the news the Pacific Mail company sent a dispatch to their agents at Acapulco to send the steamer Barcicott which had just arrived there from Paonoma, to make thorough search for the five other boats, which it is thought are either afioat with passengers or crew or on the coast near the scene of the disaster.
 The latest concerning the disaster is a private message which reports that there is a possibility that several more boats are adrift or have landed on the coast The disaster occurred about fifty miles from Manzanillo and between that port and Punta San Telmo, in bend in the south Mexican coast The Colima had been out several hours when the ac- cident occurred to her machinery, which caused her to spring a leak. She filled quickly and it being night and all the passengers having retired for the night difficulty was encountered in arousing them. Confusion and wild disorder fol lowed. One boat was lowered and five swung out, but as far as is known the one boat was the only one that got a good distance from the ship before she went down. It was impossible to see whether the other boats pulled away before being sucked under by the sinking vessel or not. All of the rescued passengers lost fhoir o1othipo and haUuaga