Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-05-31
FOUNDERED AT SEA
Pacific Mail Steamship Colima
Went Down Off Man.
ZanillO.
NEARLY TWO HUNDRED ABOARD
One Boat Containing Nineteen
Persons Reached Shore
Safely. .."

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3O.-The steam
ship Colima, with 1872 persons aboard
including passengers and crew, found
cred off the coast of Mexico on Monday.
Fourteen passengers and five members
of the crew reached Manzanillo, 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.
Definite but meagre information Of
the disaster was received at II o'clock
p. m. by J. H. Scherwin, manager and
vice president of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company, to which corporation
the steamer belonged.
A telegram informed Mr.. Schwerin
that boat containing IA passengers
and members of the crew of the
steamer reached Manzanillo bringing
the startling information that the
Colima had foundered the day before not
far from that port.
The names of the passengers and
seamen in the small boats were not
given in the dispatch. Neither was
there any information about the re.
muinder Of the passengers and the
crew.
Carried 112 Passengers.
The Colima sailed from San Fran
cisco on the 10Th inst, for Panama and
way ports. She carried 112 passengers,
40 in the cabin, and 36 whites and 36
Chinese in the steerage. She was COM
manded by Captain J. P. Taylor and
was an iron vessel of g. 900 tons. She
was built in 1878 by Roach & Sons of
Philadelphia, and was owned by the
Pacific Mail company.
The vessel stops at Mazatlan and San
Bias before reaching Manzanillo and
passengers were landed and taken on at
both places. The corrected passenger
list can only be made out after the
names of the passengers who went
ashore and boarded the vessel at these
two ports are received by telegraph.
The Colima was due at Manzanillo on
Sunday, the Goth inst. The
dispatches show the vessel foundered
OH Monday, the 27, which would indi-
cate that some accident occurred to the
machinery which, retarding the pro-
gress of the vessel, prevented her from
reaching the port of Manzanillo before
she foundered The officers of the Pa
cific Mail Steamship company do not
believe the vessel struck hidden
ledge. They are more inclined to think
that the cause of the disaster was an
accident to the machinery. They are
sure that the officers and crew did their
duty when the trying moment came
and believe that the loss of
life will prove to be much
less than is at present
feared The vessel had six lifeboats
which hung in davits, ready to be
launched at moments notice, and it
is thought all of these could have been
launched, no matter how rapidly the
vessel sank The telegram received by
Mr.. Schwerin only accounts for one
boat, and the fact that more had not
arrived at Manzanillo at the time the
dispatch was sent, is the only indica-
tion that the loss of life may have been
very great. The Colima was single
screw propeller, with iron hull This
was her l29th voyage to Panama. She
carried about 1900 tons of cargo and
was valued at $103,0
One Hundred and Sixty Lost.
SAN FRANCISCO, May S0-The Mer-
chants exchange has, the following
dispatch from Manzanillo:
.'Steamer Colima total loss. One hun
drcd and sixty passengers and crew
lost. Twenty one saved. Much bull
lion lost"
Mucn Wheat Missing.
ST. Louis, May 30. The PERCEPTIONS
drop in the St. Louis United Elevator
stock was caused by the discovery of "a