Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-07-26
Brings SURVIVORS
FROM SH|PWRECK
STEAMER POMONA ARRIVES AT
SAN FRANCISCO WITH Tt1iR-
TY-TWo OF CREW.
ONE PASSENGER is
ALSO ON THE VESSEL
Death List Is Now Placed at Ninety.
EIght-Expiosion Of Boilers Said
to Have Saved the Lives of Many
Persons.

San Francisco, July 24.-The Pacific
Coast Steamship company's passenger
steamer Pomona arrived in San Fran
cisco from Eureka at 1890 Tuesday
morning, bringing from the latter
place one of the surviving passengers
OF the wrecked steamer Columbia, and
the 80 members of the Columbia's
crew, who were saved out of her total
complement of So. The passenger Is
Miss A. Leidell, of this city.
Miss Leidell stated that she was
asleep in her berth when the accident
occurred. She ran out on the deck
and leaped into the sea, as she
thought, but fortunately she landed
on one of the half-submerged RATS
and was not badly hurt. She said a
woman with a child in her arms fol-
lowed but fell into the water and both
were drowned. Just before the
Columbia went down Miss Leidell said
Capt. Doran tied down the whistle
cord and throwing his hands up cried
out: "Good-by, God bless you"
In response to questioning, Capt.
Swanson said: "The Pomona left
Eureka at two o'clock Monday after
moon with one passenger and 80 of the
survivors of the crew OF the Columbia
who reached Eureka from Shelter
Cove l did not have an opportunity
TO learn their names. Purser Byrnes,
of the lost ship, is remaining at Eu-
reka by order of his company. He has
sent many of the survivors north to
Portland upon the steamer George W.
Elder, which rescued 80 or 80 men
and women and took them to Eureka,
TO which point she towed the water
logged San Pedro. Many of the sur.
vivors will remain at Eureka and are
being cared for in hospitals. They
are suffering from exposure, shocl
and grief. No one who belonged tc
me was on board the Columbia, but
had many friends and acquaintance
among the men and officers of the
crew."
Ninety-seven Saved by the Elder.
1t is known that of 1873 passengers
reported by the company as sailing on
the Columbia, 81 were saved by the
George w. Elder, which towed the
San Pedro into Eureka.
There were so in the crew of the
Columbia and of these 80 We're on the
Elder. Reports from Shelter Cove
announce the arrival of one boat with
As more passengers and crew, leaving
the total death roll at SO.
So far only one boat has arrived al
Shelter Cove, although four were re
ported there. It. is-said. that before
rats. These have, yet to be heard
from and it is expected that steamers
passing up and down the coast will
succeed in picking them up with their
living freight.
Explosion Saves Many Lives.
That 80 many escaped is accredited
strange to say, to the fact that the ex
plosion of the boilers when the steam
er was sinking counteracted the tire
mendous suction and saved a lot O
persons who We're in the water from
being drawn into the vortex and dowr
with the wreckage. The back wave
from the sinking steamer threw man,
swimming for their lives back from
the point of danger and gave them {
chance to escape Not a few of the
Passengers on board the Columbia
were teachers and their friends who
had been attending the National Edu
cational association in Los Angeles
Many of these have been rescued ant
were among the arrivals on board the
George w. Elder.
On Sunday evening there was an at
fecting scene on board the Elder wher
the rescued passengers gathered ii
the social hall and divine services
were held by Rev. Frank Talmage Of
Los Angeles. son. of T. Dewitt Tai
mage.
Kneeling on the floor the passen
gers joined in offering thanks to the
Almighty for their deliveranoe.
1t was touching spectacle while
women and men with bruised faces
and limbs in strange clothes supplied
by the passengers and crew of the
Elder sang Nearer My God to Thee
and Rock of Ages"
Killed by Fall of Lumber.
Philadelphia, July 24--By the ton
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