The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-24
Survivor on Pomona.


 San Francisco, July 23.-The Pacific Coast Steamship company's passenger steamer Pomona arrived in San Francisco from Eureka today. bringing from the latter place one of the surviving passen- gers of the wrecked steamer Columbia and the thirty-two members of the Coium- bias crew who were saved out of her total complement of fifty-nine.
 The passenger is Miss Liedell of this city.
 The Pacific Coast companys dock at the foot of Broadway was crowded with peo- pie when the high, black hull of the Po- mona hove In sight around the bend in the water front. The first comment from the watchers was she brings no bodies. !" for the flag at her stern rail was flying at the mast head The starboard rail of the Pomona was black with passengers and here and there among them, as the vessel ran alongside the wharf, could be discerned members of the ill-fated Colum- bias crew, whom the crowd upon the deck picked out by the nondescript clothes they wore. When the gangplank was hoisted to the Pomona's deck officers of the Pacific Coast company had difficulty in restraining the people from clamoring aboard
 The crowd was made to stand back and a line was kept open, while the Pomona s
 
 stopped at the foot of the gangplank and asked excitedly Were you a passenger upon the Columbian" With one exception the answer was mo" The exception was Miss Liedel. Clothed from head to foot in a dark brown ulster and her features hidden by a brown veil tied over her hat and under her chin, she came falteringly down the plank and made her way uncer- tainly through the crowd. She held her bap nd dIra iaf to fac eba I1y and when asked by newspaper men for a recital of her experience she broke into tears and turned, shaking her head
 Cir Would Not Talk.
 T don't want to say anything. l don't want to say anything! l don't want to talk she murmured. Captain Swanson with newspaper men.
 T don't know that l can add anything to the accounts already given" said Cap tain Swanson.
 T asked several officers of the Colum- bia crew for a statement just how the collision occurred and what followed aft. CT it occurred. but they said they were not at liberty to talk until they had re ported to the company's officials here in San Francisco
 Purser Byrnes of the lost ship is re- maining al Eureka by order of his com-
  pany. He has sent many of the surviv- ors north to Portland upon the steamer George W. Elder. which rescued eighty or ninety men and women and took them to Eureka.
 Many of the survivors are being cared for there in hospitals, They are suffer- ing from exposure, shock and grief Among the Columbia survivors brought by the Pomona is E. Petersen of Brigham City, Utah. He was waiter The Po- mona brought ten deck hanus, seven en- zine room men and thirteen stewards and walters, all saved from the Columbia Paul Heiner, a quartermaster on the Columbia was In charge of a raft bear ing four women and fifteen men which made shore at Shelter Cove. It Is prob able these are the fifteen persons referred to in last nights dispatches as then being on their way to Eureka and expecting to have arrived at the latter port shortly before the sailing of the Pomona yester- day.
 Schwerin's Statement.
 R. P. Schwerin. vice president and gen. >ral mana1er of the San Francisco and