Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-07-25
SCORES OF PASSENGERS PERISH
WHEN VESSELS cOLA1E At
DEAD OF NIGHT.
STEAMER COLUMBIA
49,. HIT BY LUMBER SHIP
Former Is Quickly KnguFfed by OCEAN
and Victims Die In Their Berthe
Captain Goes Down with the
Wreck.

nsion between the passenger steamer
Columbia and the steam schooner San
Pedro of Shelter cove on the CAL
ifornia coast $50 of the 300 passen.
gers lost their lives Saturday night.
About an equal number are reported
saved. The Columbia was sunk and
lies completely submerged In the
deep waters Of Shelter cove. Capt.
Dorsn. master Of the Columbia, went
down with his ship. According to J..
G. Flynn, q rescued passenger Of the
Columbia, every woman passenger on
board was lost.
Passengers Were All Asleep.
The collision occurred at midnight,
when all on board save the watch and
officer on the bridge, were asleep in
their berths. The Columbia was
steaming north at an easy rate, hay
ing left here at noon Saturday. Sud-
denly out Of the fog doomed the dark
hulk Of the steam schooner San Ped
70, south bound, which was evidently
out of her course. Whistles were
blown and frantic efforts made by the
helmsman of each vessel to avert the
collision, but they were Of no avail.
The San Pedro struck the steam
er on the port bow, tearing an i'm
mense hole in her side, through which
the water rushed in great volume.
Alarms were sounded throughout
the passenger ship and the terrified
passengers scrambled from their
staterooms 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.
Saved on a Life Raft.
A life raft was launched with a
number of the passengers on board,
but only a few of the entire num-
Der were saved.
The steamer Roanoke, carrying a
number of the dead and some of the
rescued passengers, reached here at
6:15 a. m. Monday, bringing the first
news of the disaster. The dead were
conveyed to the morgue.
Shelter cove, where the collision &C.
CURED, is :179 miles up the coast.
A life raft bearing number of the
survivors is being lowed to this
port by the Daisy Mitchell. The
San Pedro is being towed to Eureka
by the steamer George w. Elder.
Eighty-Eight Passengers on Elder.
The steamer Roanoke, on it's way
here, spoke the steamer George w.
Elder and the latter had on board SS
passengers and the crew of the Co.
lumbia, which were taken off the
steamer San Pedro. The steamer San
Pedro had her stem gone and was
damaged considerably forward. Her
mainmast was gone and foremost
sprung, her cargo was gone and she
was in waterlogged condition. The
Elder was trying to tow her to Eu-
reka, but was making slow progress
The Roanoke picked up a body sup
posed to be that of Edward Butler;
and brought it here to this city.
The Columbia was steel vessel
of 1,746 tons. ana was 300 feet in
length, 1885, feet beam and 14.4 feet
in depth. She carried a crew of "a
men, under Capt. P. A. Doran, who
had been master of the vessel for the
last five years. The vessel was built
at Chester, Pa, in 1880 and was
owned by the San Francisco & Port
land Steamship company.
800 Passengers on Board.
During the earthquake and fire the
Columbia was lying at the dry dock
of the Union iron works and the
shock loosened some of her blocks,
with the result that the vessel was
capsized. But she was entirely reft-
ted, and when she left here Saturday
she carried full list of passengers,
about 300.
The San Pedro was commanded by
Capt. Hansen and is a wooden vessel
of 318 tons. She is 166 feet long, 81
feet beam and IL feet deep. She was
built in San Francisco in 1902 for the
]. R. Hanley & Sons company, and
was recently sold to the Eastern &
Western Lumber company.
Killed by Cars Like Kin.
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