The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-23
STEAMER RAMMED
BY SCHOONER
MANY DROWNED.
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.Sh Q cki.ng Disaster Off
California Coast; De
tails Are Meagre.
CRASH OCCURS
IN DENSE FOG
San Pedro Sank Her Bow Deep
Into Columbia's Hull, and
When She Backed Away
Water Rushed and Drown
ed Sleeping Passen-

ca SleeplHS TIaSSeH-
gers.
EUREKA, CAL, July 22.--The best X
advices tonight are that approximate
lily 300 of the 249 souls on board this
steamer Columbia escaped death when
that vessel went to the bottom near
Shelter Cove between midnight and t5ea
o'clock of Sunday morning in a COLI
sion With the steam schooner San Pes
dro. One hundred and seven. of thass
Columbias passengers and thirty-seveD
Of her crew have been brought to this A
port by the steamer George w. Elder.
which towed the colliding schooner
San Pedro from the scene of the dis
aster to Eureka. 4SSlate message from
Shelter Cove says that four more
tlife-boat have been picked up. one
| of them containing eighteen persons.
another fifteen, and anot thcrs9 sixteen
| while the number in the fourth is no 4
reported.
The survivors who We're brought to x
l5this port are being cared for at hotels &
| and in private houses. The citizens Of \
| Eureka, moved to unanimous action
Shy pity and the distress OF the vic
Tins have supplied sufficient quantt-
/ ties of clothing and all necessary q
medical attention without stint or
| price, yAi jff 553a3 Sss5ssSs3sF4 4
| l@ A. committee of citizens, under a.
! leadership OF Mayor Kicks, has charged y
titselt with the duties of the hour, and
lis performing them with energy nd
1 all possible speed. W. sS
4 A segregation of the Columbia.sS
49, t,,F K, TNr,t ,ts
4 she carried seventy light men and 4
ninety women and girls:ain her steer
age twenty men and one woman q q +
4 total Of fIsa 4. ID Discrepa pc}es, III ioWeVer.
i between the full list furnished the
s|spurser on sailing anil some Of the
1 names given by survivors who have
reached here indicate that the total
j passengers may have been greater in
i numbers.
List Of Wreck Victims.
The following IS the list OF drowned
j or sunaccounted for: rs 81
/ Franklin Aulft, Miss Anna AXIS SEN
i Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. "a.
kBachman. E. Butler and wife. Miss
i Anna Bahlen, Miss Gertrude Bntler,#
1 Mrs j. Benson, DR.. and Mrs. b. C.
Best Mrs Jane Best, Miss A.. Bernal.
Miss Clara Carpenter, Mrs. a.. s. Corn-#
we'll, Miss Ruby Cooper, j. w. &Carpen-S
ter. Chew Nook. Chinaman; Miss Lena Lena
/ Cooper, Mrs. r. b. Cannon. Marion
Clasby Miss A. B. Cornell, l. CLASSIFY.
and wife. Steven Clasby. j. q. p urhan.5
L. L. Drake. Jr., Mrs l.. L. Drake. F,,$s.
.Drake, Mrs. X. Gagalda, ". Graham,
Mrs. A. Gray, Mrs. Blanche Gordon
Frank Giuene (steerags). Mrs. A.
Happ, L. E. Hill. g. Harrington. Miss
X. Hayden. Mrs w. H. ingalls,. =. 81
! Keeyer, Miss Grace Ke!lar, Miss Ehe
l m 81 Miss a Ina
b. Eellar, E. G. Leggett Miss Florence
Lewis. Ray Lewis, Q. s. Lewis and
wife. Lewis Malkus and wife. G. r..
Mehiw Miss b. Nrusser, l.. Nero. Miss
Julia Matek. John Miller tstoeragel.9
|c. w. Merrill (steeragsl,8 NJ Mayo
| (steerage), John D. Nc cFadyn. Miss
Margaret McKee rney Miss Louise d.
Make, Miss Nellie A. Make. Miss; Mary
Parsons, j. Z. Paul and wife. J. Bre-
mius (steerage), Sarah A. Roberts, p.
| Robertson, NJ. j. Ratenau. Mrs Will
4 liam Soule. G. a. Smith, Sarah Schulz.
4 Miss Cora Schulz, j. B. Springer. Miss
4 Elsie May Stone George I. Sparks,
! Miss Frances Schroeder. Mrs. E. SILVIA,
and f, silvia (steeragel. y. s.. Pielers
Todd, b. Wants, K. P. Winters. G. F.
Wilson, Mrs. A. Walter William Wal
ter, Miss B. Wight. Roland Winters.
lC S. Winslow and wife, Miss Edna
4 Wallace, Miss B. Wallace. Miss WV.
White, L. A. Wallin (steerage). j. IS.
| Young,
The foregoing list will be measur-
ably reduced by the thirty-three names
of the survivors spoken Of as coming
ashore in life-rafts at Shelter Cove
] to-day.
sank in Eight Minutes. i
Eight minutes after the San Pedro
struck the Columbia, the latter ves-a
sci had filled with water and sunk. The
night saloon Watchman notified all the
passengers to go TO the upper deck
| Without clothing they climbed out OF
their berths and rushed out. 1t was
only two or three minutes before the
decks were awash, SIX boats and
| three life RATS We're cut loose; and as
many persons as possible were crowded y
4 irto them. There was scarcely any
i evidences of q panic, the women acts
Isirg with heroism. The crew of IN.
San Pedro Immediately lowered a boat
| and picked up a large number OF SUR
4 ylvors, while the boats from the Cos =
\ Mmbia lay to by tile San PEDRO, ri
4 When the Columbia sank she carried i
i down with her a bout seventy four pas 4.
\ sengers Captain Doran and First Otii-
u Ger Whitney were on deck, tho captains
/ last words being Good bless you"
/ According to Purser j. II. Byrnes, OF
i the Columbia, there We're 100 passeng-
\ ers aboard-l6S tirst-class ~ steerags
land 90 crew
Ii Is known that lo7 passengers
! have been saved and 37 OF the crew,
II The exact number at shelter Cove IL
4 yet to be determined, Just as the q
! Columbia was sinking her boilers ex-
! Lloded. This countcraftec the suction
I'and saved maily lives
4 One of the worst marine disasters In
1.-the history of the California ooast. IN
which many lives were lost. by i y
4 midnight collision between tha steam
er Columbia and the steam l,inshsi
! laden schooner San Pedro. occurred IA
i Shelter Cove. twelve miles scutAWssk