The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-07

San Francisco, June 6.-Seventeen OF
the Inflated steamer Colima arrived in
port today on the San Juan.
When she locked hundreds of friends
and relatives of those who went OH the
Colma were assembled awaiting the land
ing of the passengers. Groups of women
with tearstained faces and knots of aux-
ious men, implored everyone on board for
tiulhSS OF the lost, almost hoping against
hope that there might have been some
mistake In the dispatches and some nane
omitted among the saved. How keen was
their disappointment, even IN the face
OF the inevitable assurance that there was
no hope, was evidenced III their bitter
approximations On the upper deck of the
steamer were few happy people, whose
pleasure contraSted sharply with the grief
OF the bereavei. These were the friends
OIL the survivors who We're embraced and
congratulated at their miraculous rescue.
The Survivors.
The Colima survivors who landed today
erland, G H Gushing, jr., J. NJ Thorn
ton II. II. Boyd, Gustav Rowan. Bruno
CaId. Jose Antonio SollZ. Jose +. Mar
Teil, George D. Ross, Louis Sansene, L.
j. Oriel, Juan y. Ramos.
Crew-O. Hansen. r. \. Villes. Albert
Carpenter, Arthur Richardson, Tom
L SIR
The following We're landed at AIazatIan:
IhomaS Sarabia, Domingo Adams Angel
Gulthez, Carlos Ruiz.
The nineteen men saved from a watery
grave when they had all given up hope Of
rescue were a sorry looking party when
they arrived at the mail dock Some had
their arms in sings. The heads of others
We're SWamped in banda geS They limDed
as they walked, and their bruises were
plainly in evidence. All looked thin and
weakly and showed only too plainly the
siectS OF the terrible strain during the
fearful hours when they waited succor.
The stories of the surviv ors all con-
1rmed the telegraphic accounts of the dis
aSter. They agree that the cause of the
laundering was the tor-heavy condition
OF the Colimo, due to her bulky deckload
From the beginning of the voyage south.
they say, the steamer acted badly, and
Wouiu not answer her helm. The storm
y hlch sunk her was encountered about
o clock Monday night, May p. and blew
durlously during the next fourteen hours.
snoreward in the teeth OF a furious south
easterly gale. when she lay helplessly
battered by the mighty tidal waves.
Drowned Like Rats.
The steamer lay helplessIy on her side
Tor about fifteen minutes and then tipped
over and sank
The women and children were drowned
in their staterooms. where they We're con-
lined during the gale. Those passengers
who had been on deck were thrown into
mutilated by the lumber on the deck.
blown by the wind and hurled on the
heads of the struggling men in the water.
The raft, upon which Cushing. Suther-
land, Richardson and two others were
atioat, drifted about for twenty-four
hours. They save up all hope until the
San Juan hove in sight. They attracted
her attention by hosting a piece Of red
cloth and waving their clothes
On the raft with the passengers Wers
two sailors. One seized small cask of
clarer. of which hOf6 drank 10
came drunk and quarrelsome. To save
the lives of the rest on the raft. the men
say, they were obliged to push one sailor.
mad with drink. into the sea, where he
drowned The passengers say there was
no time to launch the boats. or put on life
preServers when they realized the serious
plight of the Colima, and besides the fury
of the storm made it impossible to launch
or man the boats successfully. Those
who secured life-preservers got them in
the water, and those in the boat picked
up by the San Juan clambered into her
as she floated towards them struggling in
the sea.