Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-22
STEAMER SINKS
OVER 100 LOST
Frightful Maritime
Disaster in Pacific
Waters
RESULT OF COLLISION
Lumber Schooner Rams Pas.
senger Boat.-Every Woman
on Board browns.

san francisco, July 22.-7NeWS
reached here this morning of fright
full maritime disaster off Shelter
Cove, Mendocino County, at midnight
Saturday night, when the iron crew
steamer Columbia, of the San Fran
cisco and Portland Steamship Com
pany, was sunk in a collision with
the lumber steamer San Pedro ant
over a hundred lives lost.
CoIIided at Night in Fog.
The collision occurred during a
dense fog and at midnight when all
on board save the lookout and the Off
Ger on the bridge were asleep. The
Columbia was steaming north at ar
easy rate. Suddenly out of the fog
loomed the dark hull Of the steam
schooner San Pedro, southbound, evi
IDENTIFY out of her course. The Colum
bias whistles were blown and frantic
efforts made by the helmsman of each
vessel to avoid a collision but of nc
avail. The San Pedro struck the Co
lumbia on the port bow tearing an
immense hole inside through which
the water rushed in a great volume
Columbia Sank in Five Minutes.
Alarms were sounded throughout the
passenger ship and the terrified pas
sengers scrambled from their state
rooms in an effort to escape from the
doomed vessel but the time was toe
short. The vessel sank within five
minutes of the time of the collision
The life raft was launched with a
number Of passengers but only few
of the entire number aboard were
saved. The steamer Roanoke, carry
ing the rescued passengers reached
here this morning, bringing the first
news Of the disaster. Shelter Cove
where the collision occurred Is 179
mills up the coast. The life raft bear.
ing a number of the survivors is be-
ing towed to this port by the steamer
Daisy Mitchell
Captain Went Down With Ship.
Captain P. A. Doran, of the Column
bia, went down with his vessel. The
San Pedro was picked up by the
steamer George W. Elder and is being
towed to Eureka. The Columbia was
bound from this port for Portland.
and sailed from San Francisco Sat
urday. She had a passenger list OF
1S9 16S being cabin and 21 steerage
passengers.
The Columbia was an iron screw
steamer of 2,722 tons register. She
was built in 1880 by J. Bosh & Son,
of Chester, Pennsylvania, and was
owned by the San Francisco and Port
land Steamship Company. The San
Pedro is wooden steamer built in
1899 in Aberdeen, Washington.
Every Woman Aboard Pershed.
A later report says eighty passen-
gers and the crew of the Columbia
were saved and that $50 were
drowned, including Captain Doran.
The steamer Roanoke spoke to the
steamer Georgia w. Elder and the lat
ter had on board eighty-eight passen-
gers and the crew of the Columbia
which were taken off the steamer San
Pedro. The San Pedro had her stem
gone and was damaged considerably
forward. Her main mast was gone
and the foremast sprung, her cargo
was gone and she was In water
logged condition. The Elder was try
ing to tow her to Eureka, but was
making slow progress. According to
J. G. Flynn, a rescued passenger, every
woman passenger was lost.
Relatives Besiege Offices.
The body Of Edward Butler, sup
posed to be from Portsmouth, Ohio,
has been brought here. Miss Florence
Thompson of Johnston, Ohio, and
Miss Eva Booker Of Franklin, Ken
lucky, are among the lost The Mer-
chants Exchange in this city was be.
sieged by anxious relatives and
friends of the Columbia's passengers
since early morning, but no list OF the
drowned can be secured, nor are the
names of the survivors known.
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