Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-23
AS Details Are Obtained Loss
OF Life in Ocean Disaster
Grows Less
BOILER EXPLOSION SAVED MANY
Force Of the UpheavaI, Caused by the
Boilers Blowing Up, as the Ship
Sank, conteracted Tremendous Sue
tion of the Water-Life Boats Were
Launched-Rescued Ones Thankful.

San Francisco, July 23.-The arrival
of the steamship Pomona, having on
board a number of the survivors OF
the Columbia, is anxiously awaited
this morning. The exact number OF
those who pershed will not be known
until complete accounts are brought
in from Bryceland and Shelter Cove.
1t is known that of the 1SS passeng-
ers reported by the company as sail
ing on the Columbia. ninety-seven
We're saved by the steamer George w.
Elder. OF the crew of sixty, thirty
eight were on the Elder. Reports
from Shelter Cove announce the ar
rival of one boat with fifteen more
passengers and members of the crew,
leaving the total death roll at ninety-
eight.
1t is said that before the steamer
sank six of her boats had been
launched, together with three life RATS.
These have yet to be heard from. 1t
is expected that steamers, passing up
and down the coast, will succeed in
picking them up with their living
freight. -.
Explosion Saves Many.
That SO many escaped is accredited
to the fact that the explosion of the
boilers when the steamer was sinking,
counteracted the tremendous suction,
and saved, a lot of people, who were in
ba
with the wreckage. The back wave
from the sinking steamer threw many
who were swimming for their lives,
back from the point of danger, and
gave them a chance to escape.
Not few of the passengers on
board the Columbia were teachers and
their friends, who had been attending
the National Educational Association
in Los Angeles. Many of these have
been rescued and were among the ar
rivals on board the Elder.
Rescued Ones Give Thanks.
On Sunday evening there was an
affecting scene ON board the Elder,
when the rescued passengers gathered
in social hall, and divine services were
held by Rev. DR.. Frank Talmage, of
Los Angeles, the son Of the great T.
Dewitt Talmage. Kneeling on the floor
the passengers Joined in Offering
thanks to the Almighty for their deliv-
erance 1t was a touching spectacle,
while women and men with bruised
faces and limbs in strange clothes,
supplied by passengers and the crew
of the Elder sang, Nearer My God
to Thee" and Crock of Ages
ga Ak E,pNol<a
Captain Swanson, of the Pomona,
says Purser Byrnes, of the Columbia,
is remaining at Eureka, by order OF
his company. He has sent many sur
vivors north to Portland upon the
steamer George w. Elder, which res
cued eighty or ninety men and women,
and took them to Eureka. Many of the
survivors will remain at Eureka, and
ara being cared for in the hospitals.
They suffer from exposure and shock
and grief.
One Hundred Seven Saved.
Purser Brown, of the Pomona,
showed list of the surviving passen-
gers taken to Eureka exclusive OF those
who reached there an hour before the
sailing of the Pomona, which had been
personally secured and certified to by
Purser Byrnes. 1t comprises 107 names
and tailed with the list reported in
these dispatches last night. Paul Hin
ner. quarter master of the Columbia,
was in charge of the raft bearing four
women and eleven men which made
shore at Shelter Cove. Probably these
are the fifteen persons referred to in
last nights dispatches as those being
on their way to Eureka, and expected
to have arrived at the latter point short
ly before the sailing Of Pomona yes
tordov