Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-01
THE COLIMA WRECK.
One Hundred and Eishty-Elsht People
Certainly Lost.
ALL THE WOMEN WENT DOWN.
So Did the Cbiidren-Furfher Par-
ticuInrs of the Terrible Disaster
on the Coast of Mexfco-Enorts To
Save Survivors.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 3i.-The fol-
loving special dispatch from the Chroni-
cle's correspondent in the City of Mexico
contains the awful tidings of the Colimas
fate:
CITY OF MEXICO, May @.-lt Is
now F. NJ. and not single press u.s.
patch has been received over the govern
ment wires from Manzanillo. The single
wire circuit between Manzanillo anu
Mexico City has been kept at glowing
heat all day with official kilograms adj
dressed to and sent By the Secretary OF
War. Don Pedro j. Hinojosa, though a
few have also been received by Major
X. b. Gorsuch, Mexican representative OF
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company In
this capital. The substance of these dis
patches as received up to this time Is as
follows:
"'About o'clock on the morning OF the
9th. in latitude IS degrees, 80 minutes
north. and longitude lOi degrees
IA minutes, west. the Colima was
struck by powerful wind, and
was driven upon a coral reet
and sunk. with a large hole stove IN
her side near the PROV. Captain }: r.
Taylor. after displaying mastery SIKH IN
the management Of the vessel, was killed
by falling mast. The first pilot ana
first engineer were also killed ana soon
afterward the boat struck the reef ana
went down in 1870 fathoms OF water
Nearly twenty-four hours later the COAST
line steamer San Juan. Dicked M s,N-
teen survivors, and carried them into the
- Etya others swan
ashore at Coahuayuanok and FIVE more
three cabin passengers and two sailors
were subsequently rescued by a govern
ment boat sent by the Pacific Mail steam
ship agent at Manzanilo. one hundred
and eighty-elght persons are known To
have been drowned and twenty-six saved
MESSAGE FROM A SON.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. May H.-Mrs.
G. H. Cushing. mother Of two young men
who were passengers aboard the Colima,
has received the following message from
her son, who was rescued, and which
reads as follows:
"MAZATLAN. May 80 7:2O p. NJ, via
Galveston:
TO Mrs. c. II. Cushing. San Francisco:
"Am here; returning on San Juan.
(Signen &C. II. CUSHING"
The telegram indicates that he knows
nothing concerning his brothers safety,
and simply sent the message as means
Of relieving his mothers anxiety 10 some
extent.
A later dispatch, received by the steam
ship company is as follows:
"COLdAA, MEN, May a.-Six sur
vivors OF the steamer Coima have reached
here They are: John Thornton. J. II.
Childbred. OF Seattle, and Cabin-Passen-
gers Lewis Peters and Nindor, Seaman
Gonzales. and Fred. Johnston. They got
ashore on a raft. Another raft with i've
persons was seen near San Telmo. Its
fate Is unknown.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN WENT
DOWN.
"The women and children were all In
the state-rooms, and all went down with
the steamer"
Another dispatch from ManZanillo says:
1.-THE survivors saw Purser Wafer In
well-manned boat. pulling away from the
sinking steamer toward shore 1t Is sup
posed that this boat Is still afiOat. The
men who loaded the Colima say that the
killing OF Captain Taylor. First-Otiicer
Griffith. and the chief engineer was in
all probability not due 10 falling spars,
bur 10 lumber. which was loaded on the
deck Of the vessel. There were several
thousand feet OF heavy lumber on the
deck tied with ropes to the bulwarks
In the storm the wind probably wrenched
the lumber loose from it's fastenings. and
it then swept the decks, killing the Of