Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-06-08
DETAILS. Particulars of the Wrecking of Ill-fated Steamer,
 Colima. HER BOILERS EXPLODED. Over 0ne-hundred Passengers Swept to Death by the
 Angry Waters.
HER BOILERS EXPLODED

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3-The Exam ner's City of Mexico special says ths rescuinR parties are still searching fo survivors of the Colima disaster both O land and sea. Many believe that som of the passengers are wandering abou
 few miles from the coast, having bee cast up by the sea and not knowin
 which way to go for shelter. The sur
 vIvors say that If the San Juan hs,
 cruised around at least two days longe
 at the scene of the wreck it would hav
 rescued several more. The survivors O
 the first raft found the remains of
 head floating in the water, the body
 having been eaten by sharks.
 SAN FRANCISCO, June Especial from
 Mszstlan says:
 The steamer San Juan arrived here
 with the twenty-ore passengers picked up on Tuesday from the wreck of the
 Colima. From them your correspondent,
 has learned some of the particulars of
 the dreadful disaster, which they Say happened on Monday at noon when the Colima was about twenty-eight miles out of Manzanillo and ten miles from shore.
 All the rescued are badly bruised. They were all picked up from pieces of wreckage and rafts with the exception of A. J. Sutherland, who had clung to boat after it had capsized five times and dro wned all the other occupants.
 As all were afioat, lashed by the fierc- est gale for years and buffeted by the angry seas for twenty four hours, they are hardly yet in condition to tell 6 connected story of the wreck and the experiences of their escape, but many interesting particulars have been obtain. ed. The steamer was heavily laden and had a large deck load of lumber When the storm struck her she made bad weather of it, the captain having great difficulty in keeping her head to the sea. The wind increased in fury until it is said to have been the fiercest storm known along this coast in twenty years. The sea rose rapidly. Waves dashed over the vessel and started the deck load.
 AS the waves rose and the storm in- creased the managing of the steamer be- came impossible. At last about noon her head could no longer be kept up and she broached to. Once in the trough of the sea a mighty wave struck her and she was thrown on her beam ends.
 This wave struck her with such force that the steamer trembled as if she had run upon reef and most of the passen- gers thought this the cause of the shock. This gave rise to the report that the ship had struck on a reef.
 Whether because of the heavy deck load, the shifting of coal and cargo or the force of the storm, the steamer would not right herself. The passengers were pretty badly stunned by being pitched about, but rushed upon deck ID a panic. Here they met another danger. The gale tore parts of the deck load of lumber from It's fastenings and whirled the heavy blanks about with appalling violence. Many were struck and maimed. At last one passenger was killed by having his head crushed by one of the flying timbers.
 In their terror the passengers made few mental notes of their surroundings at this juncture. The survivors say however, that the officers of the steamer were brave and active Captain Fay Tor stood upon the bridge, his first off cer, D. E. Griffiths, with him. At au order Griffiths rushed aft to superin- tend the launching of lifeboat No. 5 Second Officer George Langhorne was at lifeboat No. 3, and succeeded in get ting it launched and filled with psssen- gers. Then down went the ship, and Lsnghorna's boat was capsized.
 All Tn the boat are supposed to have been drowned.
 Captain Taylor went down with the ship, sticking to his post. As the ship pitched downward he blew three blasts on the whistle, supposedly as sign of "good bye." Then he disappeared be- heath the waves.
 Down went the engineers and firemen at their posts. Freight Clerk Berry was in his room at the time of the final plunge.
 Third Officer Hanson was saved. As the steamer sank he cut some of the lsshings of the deck lumb Der. Then he jumped or wss thrown overheard on the weather side of the vessel and reach ed the top side of the deck house. This had been washed off by the great wave that threw the ship on her beam. There Hanson hung, washed and buffet ed, for twenty-four hours. He saw men and women sink about him, but he was powerless to help them.
 Hanson says that as the steamer foundered her boilers burst. The deck burst under his feet as he left the ship. Ten other men were thrown into the sea with him. The bursting of the boilers tore of the deck and threw part of it over at least dozen men who were struggling in the water, drowning them all. Flying debris hit others.
 Two life-rafts were seen to be afioat. On one were three men and on another six. including J. B. Chilberg of Seattle, who seemed to have been leader in the work of launching the raft.
 Those in any position to take notice of the surroundings saw many who clung to bits of wreckage and the lum- Der from the decklosd. The gale caught this wreckage from the crests of the great waves and beat the struggling unfortunates with it. One mans skull was crushed by whirling plank as he was about to chamber upon a life raft. The dash of the sea made each timber 8 menance as we'll as hope.
 So the fight for life began. There was