The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-07-26
STEAMERS COLLIDE
100 LIVES LOST

| lUU LIVES LUST
San Francisco. July 2S.-In q COL.
lision between the passenger steamer
Columbia and the steam schooner San
Pedro of the Mendocino coast, one
hundred passengers lost their lives Sat
urday night.
The Columbia was sunk and lies sub
merged in the deep EATERS Of Shelter
Cove.
Captain Doran, master OF the Colum-
bia. stayed with his vessel and is
among those lost
The collision occurred at midnight
when all on board save the lookout aud
officers on the bridge were asleep in
their berths.
The Columbia was steaming north
at an easy rate, having left here at
noon Saturday.
Suddenly, out of the fog doomed the
dark hulk of the schooner San Pedro.
south bound, which was evidently out
Of her course.
Whistles were blown and frantic
efforts made by the helmsmen of each
vessel to avert the collision, but they
were OF no avail
The San Pedro struck the steamer on
the port bow tearing an immense hole
in her side, through which the water
rushed in great volume.
A1ory,oc Vuoro sounded <brO--bo-t 49, -
passenger ship and the terrified passen.
gers scrambled from their statercoms
in an effort to escape from the doomed
vessel, but the time was too short to
aid the life-savers.
The vessel sank within five minutes
Of the time Of the collision.
A life raft was launched with num-
Der Of passengers on board, but only a
few of the number aboard were saved.
One hunderd lives were lost.
The steamer Roanoke, carrying a
number of the dead and some of the
rescued, reached here at 6:15 Monday
morning, bringing the fisrt news of the
disaster.
The dead were conveyed to the NOR
que.
Shelter Cove, where the collision oc-
CURED, is 179 miles up the coast.
A life raft bearing a number Of the
survivors is being towed to this port
by the Daisy Mitchell.
The San Pedro is beinging towed to
Eureka by the steamer George w.
Elder.
The Columbia was a steel vessel of
1746 tons and was 800 feet long, SO
feet beam and i 4. 5 in depth. She car
ried crew of "a men under Captain
P. A. Doran. who had been master of
the vessel for the past five years.
The ship was built at Chester. Pa.
in 1880 and was owned by the San
Francisco and Portland Steamship
company.
During the earthquake and fire the
Columbia was lying at the drydock of
the Union ironworks and the shock
loosened some of her blocks with the
result that the vessel captsized.
But she was entirely refitted and
when she left here Saturday she car.
ried a full list of passengers--about
800.
The San Pedro was commanded by
Captain Hansen and is wooden vessel
of S18 tone. She is 1865 feet long, 81
feet beam and IL feet deep.
A later report from Portland esti-
mates that between 20 and 80 persons
lost their lives in the steamer wreck.
That there was a blunder in navigation
is the opinion of some of the survivors.
The boiler Of the Columbia blew up
as she was sinking. She lies in deep
water and is total loss. The nearest
place of any size is Eureka, Cal.
The list of dead and unaccounted for
is sent from that place. There is
known to be a number unaccounted for
who are possibly at Shelter Cove, hay
ing reached there in RATS and boats.
Reports say there were 249 persons on
the Columbia.
The place of the disaster was off the
Humboldt Mendocino county line.
The vessel which sank off Shelter
Cove on the California coast was rated
a summer home by many Portlanders,
who annually made trips to San Fran.
cisco in this palatial floating hotel.
The list of passengers on the sunken
vessel is almost half comprised of Port
land people or persons coming here to
join relatives, which makes the blow
all the harder on this city.
AS near as can be learned some rs
persons lost their lives in the wreck.
The captain of the Columbia often
made the statement that in the event
of serious disaster ovetaking vessel
in his charge he would never be seen
alive again unless every soul on board
was saved, which would indicate that
the heroic seaman went down with his
vessel.
The steamship Columbia has been on
the run between Portland and San
Francisco for ~ years. having left the
Bay city on the first voyage to Port
land on July 90. 1880. This is the first
mishap she has ever experienced while
en- route between the two ports
o. Swanson, a sailor of the San Pc
dro, was at the wheel Saturday night
wht.n the fa 70 collision ooorr,od In