The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-30

OF over a Hundred and Eighty Souls on
Board Only Nineteen Are Known to Have
Been Resoued-The Statement of Third
officer Hansen.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3O.-The steam
ship Colima with 1S2 persons aboard in
cluding passengers and crew, foundered
off the coast of Mexico on Monday Four.
teen passengers and five members of the
crew reached Manzanita, Mexico and gave
the first information of the vessels fate.
Whether the remainder of the passengers
and crew escaped in small boats or went
down with the ship is not known. There
was large amount Of bullion on board
the vessel, and this is undoubtedly total
loss
Only mesger and unsatisfactory advices
have been received here today regarding
the disaster. The officials of the Pacific
Mail line persist in the statement that
they have received no information of the
wreck of the steamer, and they have tried
TO discredit entirely the reports of the dis
aster. Several dispatches have been re
ceived by the Merchants Exchange and by
private shipping firms, however, all con-
firming the tale of the ocean tragedy, and
varying only in the minuteness of the in
formation conveyed.
Captain Pitts, of the steamer San Juan,
telegraphed yesterday that he picked up a
boat containing nineteen persons, four
teen of whom were passengers and the
others members of the crew of the Co
| lima. The rescued boat load was taken
to Manzanilla, and then the steamer San
Juan started out again in search of other
boats from the Colima, the presumption
being that the balance of the passengers
and crew were ahoat in the other boats of
the Colima.
The occupants of the boat picked up
were as follows: Cabin passengers Do
minco, Albano, Cashing, Thornton, Sari-
aba and Rutz Steerage: John Crew, H.
w. Boyd, Antonio Rome, r. Rose, S.
| O'Reill, G. Owen, Jose A. Salia, l.. L.
Zancre. Crew: o. Hansen, third officer
a carpenter, A. X. Richardson, a store
keeper, Raymond Avils and J. Morel.
The names Sariaba and Rutz do not ap-
pear in the steamers list of passengers
sailing from this port, the presumption
being that they joined the steamer at Ma
zatlan. There were two Cushings on
board, brothers, and lady and gentleman
each named Thornton. No initials of sur
vivors were given in the brief telegraph
} message.
! AluOuB tue pdSS6llRGIS lOl
are Professor Harold Whiting, Mrs. Whit
ing and Miss Rose Whiting. Professor
e Whiting occupied chair in the state uni.
versity. Another is J. E. Chilberg, OF
Seattle, who was on his way south to in.
4 terest South American planters in new
l., steamship line between Central America
and Puget Sound
L The latest intelligence regarding the
:. disaster received here was a cipher mes
n sage to a local shipping firm containing
the statement of Third Officer Hansen
u who was in charge of the boat picked up
v Hansen stated that about II 10 Monday
night, as the Colima was about fifty mile
g from Manzanilla, and between that por
!. and Punta st. Alamo, an accident oc
Il Cured to her machinery. Hansen had NJ
time to investigate the trouble. but he be
&c lieved boiler had burst. The Collins
Is was put about, but began to sink rapidly
I A scene of wild confusion followed. On
boat was lowered, and most of the other
ID were swung out but so far as he knows
IN the boat he commanded was the only on
which got clear of the sinking ship. Th
Colima quickly foundered, and to avoi
ge suction Hansen's boat quickly pulle
,d clear and the night being dark, it was in
possible to tell whether the other boat
le got away from the ship or not If thes
by boats only got clear the calmness of tn
90 sea and the low sandy beach twenty mile
u distant would enable them 80 make sal
I'd landing in few hours. As the passeI
n. gers were all asleep, however, Hanse
fears few escaped.
y One hundred and sixty passengers an
w crew are still unaccounted for. The 70
10. lowing passengers from San Francisc
landed safely at Mazatlan before the c,
C lima proceeded towards Manzanilla
it McCutcheon, w. c. McCutcheon, J.W.
Maxwell, H. NJ Miller, L. f. Bell, G.
y Gray and P. f, Crisby.
es The offices of the Pacific Mail and Tel
" graph company and the newspapers a
filled with anxious friends of passenge
De and crew, making fearful inquiries abol
rs their friends Many of the scenes wel
u pitiful in the extreme, and the mo
gloomy forebodings prevail, despite the a
~ surances of the officials that the Colima
IL machinery was in excellent condition
having been inspected just previous to h
He leaving that her commanders and office
.ic are skilled seamen, and that the chanc
he are in favor of the safety of their friends
ny News of the Disaster Confirmed.
he Colon, Colombia, May 3O.-The news
the wreck of the Pacific Mail steamsh
ne Colima off Manzanilla, Mexico, is co
II tlrmed here. Beyond the report that MAJ
- lives have been lost no further details a
obtainable
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