The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-07-23
CATASTROPHE;
Midnight Collision in Pacific Waters Replete With
Thrilling Detail Scores Of People Find Watery
Grave as Result of Carelessness.

Eureka, Cal, July 22.-Hourly the
death list of the marine horror off the
iMendocina county coast shrinks. The
best advices tonight are that TT of
the 294 passengers on the Columbia
escaped death when that vessel went
to the bottom near Shelter Cove be-
tween midnight and o'clock Sunday
morning. One hundred and seven Of
the Columbia's passengers and 81 of
port by the steamer George Welder,
which toWed the colliding steamer San
Pedro from the scene of the disaster
to this port. A later message says
that three more life boats have been
picked up, one of them containing 18
persons, another Is, and the third
not reported.
The survivors who were brought to
this port are being cared for at hotels
and in private homes. The citizens of
Eureka, moved to unanimous action
by pity and the distress Of the victims,
have supplied sufficient quantities OF
clothing and all necessary medical at
tention without stint or price. a com
mittee of citizens under the leadership
of Mayor Kicks has charged itself
with the duties of the hour and is
performing them with energy and all
possible success. A segregation of
the Columbia's passenger list shows
that in her cabins she carried 7S men
and 80 women and girls; in her steer
age 20 men and one woman, a total of
189. Discrepancies, however, between
the full list furnished the purser
on sailing and some of the names
given by survivors who have reached
here, indicate that the total Of passen-
gers may have been greater in num-
bers. Sixteen of the names given are
not found on the steamship company's
certified list. Adding to the 189 ac-
credited passengers the SO of the so
members Of the Columbia's crew, gives
a total of 249 lives jeopardized in the
midnight collision.
The following is the list of drowned
or unaccounted for:
FRANKLIN AULIFF
MISS ANNA AKERSON.
MRS. R. ANDERSON.
w. j. BACTIMAN.
e. BUTLER AND WIFE.
MISS ANNA BAHLEEN.
MISS GERTRUDE BUTLER.
MRS. j. BENsEN.
DIR. AND MRS. B. G. BEST.
MRS. JANE BET.
MISS A. BEERNAL.
MIS- CLARA CARPENTER.
MISS RUBY COOPER.
J. w. CARPENTER.
CHEW MOCK, (Chinaman).
MISS LENA COOPER.
MRS. A. s. CORNELL.
MRS. R. B. CANNON.
MARION classy.
MISS A. B. CORNELL.
L. classy AND WIFE.
STEVEN classy.
j. c. DURHAM.
L. L. DRAKE, JR.
BLANCHE GORDON.
FRANK GIUNE, (steerage).
MRS. A. HAPP.
L. e. HILL.
G. H. HARRINGTON
MISS K. HAYDEN.
MRS. w. III. INGALs.
e. B. KEEvER.
MISS GRACE f. KELLAR.
MISS EFFIE KELLAR.
MISS G. A. KELLAR.
MISS ALMA B. KELLAR.
E. G. LTMGETT.
MISS CLORENCE LEWIS.
RAY LEWIS.
o. S. LEWIS AND WIFE.
LEWIS MALKUs AND WIFE.
G.. e. MEHIM.
MISS B. MUsSER.
L. NERO.
MISS LULU MATEK.
JOHN MILLER, (steerage). ~
C. w. MERRILL, (steerage).
| II. MAYO, (steerage).
JOHN d. M'FARYEN.
MISS MARGARET KEARNEY.
\ MISS LOUISE d. Make.
MISS NELLIE Make.
MISS MARY PARsON.
B. e. PAUL AND WIFE.
J. p. REMUS, (steerage).
SARAH A. ROBERTS.
r. ROBERTSON.
| NJ. j. RATEMAN.
MRS. WILLIAM ,SOULE.
\ r. SMITH.
SARAH SCHULZ.
MISS CORA SCHULZ.
l +. B. SPRINGER.
| MISS LIZZIE MAY STONE.
4 GEORGE 7. PARKS.
MISS FRANCIS SCHROEDER.
| GISE sTLUA, (steerage).