The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-01-08
HOPE FOR SHIP HELD OUT
BY PACIFIC MAIL COM >
PANY.
Life Rats Come Ashore but May
Have Been Washed Of Vessel
During Recent Gale-116
Persons Believed Lost ~,
On Board Ship
Panama.

San Francisco, Jan 5.-One hrn-
dred and sixteen persons are be-
lieved to have perished on the Pa
ci6c Mail steamer City of Panama,
Captain Nelson. which is thought
to have gone down short distance
north Of Santa Cruz on New Year 8
day while on the way to Ancon,
Panama. Two life RATS and two
life boats, bearing the name of the
steamer. drifted ashore yesterday
near Pigeon Point, about so miles
south of this place. Other wreckage
lean be sean from the beach, and it
lis believed that a disaster as fright
full as the loss of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company's liner Valen.
cia has occurred. The life RATS
were equipped with provisions and
the boats carried oars. ~a.}i
The boats came ashore about
noon and the RATS drifted In sew
eral bours later. The place is diff
fcult to reach by reason of rocks
and cliffs and consequently it will
be some time before a more search
ing investigation can be made.
The City of Panama left San
Francisco for Ancondre January i
carrying Is American cabin passen.
gers, 20 steerage and Is, Chinese.
Among her cabin passengers were
Dr.. Henry Waldo Coe, accompanied
lby his wife, w. G. MCPHERSON and
T. E. Prince, all of Portland. II
Officials of the Pacific Mail
Steamship company scout the idea
that the vessel has been wrecked.
They hold out the strongest hopes
IIthat she is safe and will arrive at
1Mazat1in, Mexico, tomorrow on
|schedule time. The washing ashore
of the life RATS and boats, they
lsay, of course indicate that she has
encountered severe weather on the
run down the coast. but they be-
lieve the life boats and rafts might
have beeo washed overheard by a
| monster sea. Besides the passen.
gers the steamer carried crew, of
about so. 1t is believed that every
one of these went down to death
since so much of the life saving ap-
daratus drifted ashore without car
rying person to safety.
| A message from Waddell beach
this morning confirms the report
that four life RATS fully provisioned
and equipped havecome ashore near
there. A severe storm has been
:; raging and it is hardly possible that
the occupants of the RATS could
have escaped.
All RATS are plainly marked
"Steamer City of Panama" A
short distance from the coast mas:
of wreckage was tossed by heavy
seas, but this is not yet examined
because no large boats are availa
BILE. ~
/ The Panama left San Francisco
last Monday for Mexican and Cen
trail American ports, and shonlt
have reached Mazatlan yesterday
4 The steamer proceeded slowly ou
of the harbor and at the lightshir
few miles beyond the Gate sh
stopped. She lay near the lightshi
ill New Years morning, when sh
shaped her course south and soo
disappeared.
It'was supposed at the time tina
her machinery was giving trouble
The Panama should have bee
eff Santa Cruz long before Tnesda
noon. So far as known the vesse
was not sighted again. If the Pan
anna was wrecked, an accident t
her machinery or boiler explosio
must have been the cause.
DR.. Coz was prominent physl
| clan of Portland, Oregon. He wa
ION his way to Panama to study ear
[itary conditions on the Isthrnus an
embody his observations in re
tport to the American Medical soc
ETY. at lite annual meeting next June
| His wife was with bim, and frien
| Thomas Prince, prominent ma
| of Portland, who was making th
trip for pleasure.
/ One of the strangest features {
| the incidents surrounding the dit
| aster to the steamship is containe
/ in a letter written by DR.. Coe.
Il I his friend DR.. Edwin L. Hous'
Il tpastor of the First Congregations
i lchurch. The words contained i
J 1.-THE message to the minister are prt