The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-23
(By the Associated Press. }

(By the Associated Press.)
EUREKA, Calf, July 22.-The
isteamer Columbia, while bound for
; Portland from San Francisco off the
coast of Mendocino. between mid
night and | O'Clock Sunday morning,
collided with the lumber schooner
San Pedro. The frightful disaster
occurred directly off Shelter Cove.
, The lumber schooner stove great
hole in the vessel and she rapidly
filled with water and sank, carrying
many to watery grave.
Hourly the death list of the ma
rine horror shrinks. The best ad-
vices tonight are that III of the 249
souls ON board the steamer Colum-
bia escaped death, when that vessel
went to the bottom near Shelter
Cove and 1O7l of the Columbia's pas
sengers and 81 of her crew have
been brought to this port by the
steamer George w. Elder, which
towed the colliding schooner San
Pedro from the scene of the disaster
to Eureka. A late message from
Shelter Cove says that three more
life boats have been picked up, one
of them containing is passengers,
another Is, and the third not re-
ported.
The survivors who were brought
to this port are being cared for at
hotels and in private homes. The
citizens of Eureka, moved to unani-
nous action by pity and the distress
of the victims, have supplied suffi-
cient quantities of clothing and all
necessary medical attention without
stint or price. A committee of citi-
zens under the leadership of Mayor
Kicks has charged itself with the du-
ties 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 cab
/ ms she carried rs men and 80
women and girls; in her steerage 20
men and one woman, total OF lS9.
Discrepancies, however, between the
full list furnished the purser on sal
ing and some of the names given by
survivors who have reached here in
dicate that the total passengers may
have been greater in numbers. SIX
teen of the names given here are not
found on the steamship company
certified list Adding to the 80 ac-
credited passengers, the SO or 90
members of the Columbia's crew
gives a total of 249 lives jeopardized
in the midnight collision.
Among the survivors rescued and
carried north to this port by the
George w. Elder, are men and
women from score of states, mot
| few from the middle west. Among
| these are number of school Teach
/ ers, who were varying with a sea
| voyage their home trip from THE an
| nual convention of the National ED
/ ucational association at Los Ange
! les.
! Following is the list as compiled
| up to this hour, of the Columbia
survivors. who have been broa1gh
here:
Fl. Schallhorn, Portland.
Medora Sparks, Fort Smith. Ar
kansas. z.
J. Brotherton, Muskogee, I. T. /.
A. c. Woodward Oakland. Y,
Mary e. Cox, Llwood, Indiana \
C. C. Mayhew, Enid, o. T.
Clyde c. Roland, Spokane, Wn.
e. G. Townsend, North Yamhill
Oregon.
b. c. Austin, San Francisco.
J. C. Orr, Schuyler, Nebraska.
A. L. Eivers, Portland.
w. II. Truesdale, Lythfield, Ills.
Maybelle Watson, Berkeley, Calii'
Alma Osterberg, Cleveland. Ohio
Miss Stella Cannon, San Francisco
Louis Cannon, San Francisco
Emma Griese, Cleveland, Ohio
w. H. Smith, San Francisco
Emil Silon, Aberdeen, Wash.
Alice M. Watson, Denver, Colo.