Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-23
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San Francisco, July 23--The arriy.
al Of the steamship Pomona from the
north has been anXiously awaited to.
day as she is known to have on
beard a number Of the survivors OF
the steamer Columbia. II is hoped
that the loss Of life will not be SO
large as was at first reported. 1t is
known that of 1SS passengers on the
Columbia 9S were saved by the
Georgia W. Elder which towed the
San Pedro to Eureka. There we're
sixty in the crew of the Columbia and
of these thirty-eight We're on the FL
der
Reports from Shelter Cove an.
nounce the arrival Of one boat with
fifteen more passengers and crew
leaving the total death roll 9S 50
far only one boat has arrived at Shel
ter Cove.
1t Is said before the steamer sank
launched. These are yet TO be heard
from and it is expected steamers
passing up and down the coast will
succeed in picking them up.
That so many escaped is accredit-
ed. strange to say, to the fact that the
boilers exploded when the steamer
was sinking, counteractng the tre'
mendous suction and saving num-
ber of people in the water from being
drawn into the vortex
School Teachers Among Victims.
Not few of the passengers on
| the Columbia were teachers and
friends who have been attending the
National Education Association at
Los Angeles.
Two CoIoradoans Perish.
| Denver, July 23-Miss Mary Par
sons, who is believed to have perished
In the Columbia disaster was a Den
yer school teacher Miss Katrina
Hayden, another victim was teach
er at Colorado Springs Both had
been in attendance, on the National
Education Association convention at
Los Angeles last week
Wealthy stockman loses Family.
Decatur, Ill.,, July 2S.-Mrs. George
E. Keller and three daughters whose
names are included in the list of dead
in the Columbia disaster, were the
wife and children of George e. Kel
Ter, secretary of the Decatur Racing
Association and one of the wealthiest
stockmen of central Illinois.
EI Paso Women Among Victims.
FL Paso, Texas, July 23-Two Of
the victims of the Columbia steam
| ship disaster are Miss Edna and Miss
| Bertha Wallace. Miss Edna for years
has been principal Of Spanish in the
Ell Paso high school and had been
| elected to the same position in the
University of Texas for the coming
year Miss Bertha lived in Austin
where Miss Edna lived before coming
here They had been attending the
National Education Association con
vention at Los Angeles.
Pomona Arrives With One Passenger.
The Pacific coast steamer Pomona
! arrived in San Francisco from Eure-
ka this morning bringing from the
latter place one of the surviving pas
sengers of the wrecked steamer Co
lumbia, Miss "A. Leidell of this city
and thirty-tvo members of the crew
of the Columbia who were saved from
| the complement of fifty-nine The Po-
mona brought no bodies. An erron-
eous report had been spread tnat the
Pomona brought a number of the
Columbia's passengers and a throng
of eager men and women assembled
on the deck. When the gang plank
was hoisted on the Pomona's deck
these people were restrained with
great difficulty from clamoring aboard.
Miss Hedell was too overcome by ner
experience to talk to reporters and
the officers of the Columbia refused
| to talk until they had delivered tnelr
statements to the company's officials
Captain Reports Many Passengers
Saved.
about an hour before We sailed,
said Captain Swanson of the Pomona
thirty or more survivors reached
Eureka from Shelter Cove but ! did
not have an opportunity to learn their
names. Many of the survivors have
been sent north to Portland on the
steamer George w. Elder which res
cued eighty or ninety men and Wom-
en- and took them to Eureka. Many
survivors who remained at Eureka
are being cared for in the hospitals
They are suffering from the shock
and exposure and grief"
Purser Brown of the Pomona had
list of the survivors taken to Eure-
ka. 1t tailed with the list sent out