Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-02
100 SINK WITH SHIP.
TWO STEAMERS COLLIDE OFF
CALIFORNIA COAST.
Large Vessel Bound for Portland,
with More than zoo Per-
sons on Board, Sent to the Bottom
by Lumber Carrier.

drowned and scores of others were res
cued after clinging for hours to drift
ing wreckage as the result of Il terrible
sea collision, word of which was re-
ceived in San Francisco Monday morn
ing. The ships were the passenger
steamer Columbia, north bound from
San Francisco to Portland, Il the
small lumber steamer San Pedro south
ward bound and heavily laden.
The disaster occurred early Sunday
morning off Shelter Cove, Mendocino
County, and from the meager reports
which have come it is certain that more
than half the Columbia's 30 passen-
gers and crew went down with the ship
in the fog and darkness.
Carried About ) Passengers.
The Columbia left San Francisco on
Saturday evening, carrying 1S9 passen-
gers NJ a crew of about thirty under
the command of Captain p. A. Doran.
soon after dark a heavy fog came on
and the steamer was feeling her way
along the coast. The sea was calm and
the majority of the passengers Were in
their berths when Shelter Cove was
passed. CAPTAIN Doran was on the
bridge when Il few minutes later and
just after midnight the black bulk of
the San Pedro doomed up almost dead
ahead. The Columbia at once reversed
its engines and Captain Doran put the
helm hard aport, but it was too late TO
prevent the collision.
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Feeling the steamer sinking beneath
their feet, many of the men among the
Columbia's passengers and crew leaped
into the sea and swan to the San Pc
dro, which could be made out drifting
away through the fog. They alone, it
seems, were saved. One lifeboat was
launched, but it was swarnped the mo-
ment it reached the water by the rush
Of frenzied men and women All who
were in it are believed to have perish
ed, drawn down by the suction Of the
steamer when she went down with a
final rush, her decks still dotted with
screaming men anu Women
Captain Goes Down with Ship.
At the last moment the stern Of the
GOiuinDia rose niSh anOXe the WaIers
and many of the unfortunates slid the
length Of the deck as the steamer shot
beneath the waves, with Captain Doran
clinging to the bridge and making no
attempt to save his own life.
The San Pedro, q wooden boat, was
severely damaged by the collision, but
was kept afioat by her cargo. Finding
their steamer was SAFE for the time, the
crew turned to the task of rescuing the
Columbia's passengers, and about
eighty who had swum to the sides OF
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the fog curtain less than a hundred
feet away and headed straight for the
passenger steamer. Why the fog horns
were not heard is not made clear.
Sighted by Another vessel.
The San Pedro drifted around help
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