The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-23
OVER A HUNDRED LOST
Pacific Coast Steamer Is Sunk
In Collision In Fog.
EASTERN PEOPLE ON BOARD.

EASTERN PEOPLE ON BOARD.
Columbia, With 1s9 Passengers and
Crew of Sixty, Was BANNED by
San Pedro - Passengers Asleep at
| Time of Crash. e
San Francisco, July 23.-So far as is
known, between 100 and $50 lives
were lost by midnight collision be-
tween the steamer Columbia and the
steam lumber schooner San Pedro In
Shelter cove, twelve miles southwest
of the Mendocino- Humboldt county
line. Only meager details of the trag-
edy have been received.
The Columbia, 800 foot steel yes
sci of the San Francisco and Portland
Steamship company, while bound from
San Francisco for Portland, Ore, with
1870 passengers and a crew of sixty,
was rammed by the San Pedro, 40
foot wooden steamer, sobthbound for
this city.
The sea was smooth, but the weather
was foggy. The San Pedro, looming
out of the mist few ship lengths
away, bore down on the Columbia at
high speed, despite frantic efforts to
clear With grinding crash she
sank her stem fully ten feet into the
Columbia's port bow.
Asleep When Crash Came.
Nearly all of the Columbia's passen-
gers and many of her crew were
asleep when the crash came. AS the
San Pedro backed away the sea pour
ed In through the ragged hole in the
Columbia's bow above and below the
water line, and In five minutes she
sank to the bottom, the deep waters
of Shelter cove covering the tops of
her masts.
According to j. s. Flynn, passen-
ger on the steamer Roanoke, which
was at the scene of the wreck, Cap
tain Dorian of the Columbia succeeded
in launching four lifeboats and two
RATS before the vessel sank. Flynn
says Captain Dorian acted with great
GOODNESS in the face of death and went
down with his ship. Those aboard
the Columbia included several east
ern schoolteachers and the following
residents of San Francisco:
List Of Passengers.
e. @. Liggett and wife, Lewis Malklus
and wife, Miss Florence Lewis, A. l..
Biegel, Frank Aulf, Mr.. Mauldin, A. Sho-
Der, Ray Lewis. H L. Keever. ]. G. Orr.
E. E. Rockwell, Mrs. 2. Rockwell, J. w.
Riggs and wife John D. McFadyen, ]. A.
u4xka CO
Mrs X. Falade, III. 8. Allan, Miss Clara
Carpenter, Miss Louise @. Make. b. w.
Graham, Mrs. A. Happ, Mrs o. 8. Lew
is, w. j. Bachman, q. Butler and wife,
L. Leroy. @. F. Wilson. II. w. ingalls,
and wife, Moss Altabahien. w E. Town
send, Fred Rogers and L. o. Cannon.
Mrs 9. Walter, Miss Florence Thomp-
son, Miss Mary Parsons, G. r. Johnson,
Miss nthel Johnson, Mrs. B. Fitzgerald,
Miss NJ Buxton. Mrs H. c. Shaw, Mrs.
w. G. Dodson, Miss Ruby Copper. Mr.. and
Mrs. L. r. Smith, Miss H. Wright, Mr..
and Mrs. T. T. Clark, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E.
Paul, ]. w. Carpenter. L. D. Hill, J. G.
Durham, w. H. Lucas. O. 8. Lewis Mr..
and Mrs. H. H. Decker, r. B. Beever.
c. H. Beahm. G. H. Martindale, Mrs. c.
II. Martindaie, w. M. Pinney, c. II. Har-
rington, William II. Smith, Roland Win
ters Nichcora Sull, A. G. Woodward, B.
G. Wahlburg. Miss Nellie A. Nabe and j..
r.. HCclee.
George l.. Hodenpyl, Miss Emma Groese,
w. L. Smith. Dwight Casner, Miss
Gertrude Butler. c. H. Myer, c. A. Wins
low and wife, Miss Hazel ingalls,, Miss
Anna Akeeson. c, r. Mehlw, William
Waller, B. c. Austin, Miss May Lehan,
Miss Pearl Beeba. Miss Alice Watson,
Miss j. A. Johnson, Miss Edna Wallace,
Miss B. Wallace, Mrs. J, Benson. Miss L..
Hanson. Miss Alma Osterberg, Miss Lena
Cooper, Miss Maybelle Watson, Miss Ma
bel Geiger, p. M. Janney, r. H. Ewart,
G. c. Rowland, Mrs. A. #. Cornell, Dr. B.
@. Best and wife. J. X. Springer, w. c.
Todd ], W. Waddick, Miss B. Mussel, L.
L. Drake, Jr.; Mrs. r. B. Cannon Miss
Eva Booker and Miss Efiie Gordon.
Marion Clarby. Sarah H. Roberts. Miss
Carrie Martin, Mrs G. s. Eastman, Miss
Elsie Maystone. Miss A. 8. Todd. A. Win.
klebieck and wife, l.. Morosi, j. Grant
Kline and wife, Miss N. L. Goedjin, Miss
Grace +. Kellar Miss Effie b. Kellar,
Miss K. Hayden, r. 7. Kavanaugh, p.
Robertson, Miss Margaret McKeaney.
Miss Mary Walter Miss n. McLennan,
J. Broutherton, M. j. Rateman Mrs. A.
Gray Miss A. B. Cornell, Mrs. Jane Best,
William Klodt. Phillip Ashford, Frank
Hager, Mrs. l.. l.. Drake. Miss s. G.
Soannon and Miss Shuldice.
Mrs Blanche r. Gordon, L. G. Clarby
and wife, Steven Ciarby Mrs. r. Ander.
son, Miss H. Churchley, Miss Mary e.
Cox, Mrs. o. s. Liddeli B. Lippman and
wife, p. Goslinsky George T. Sparks,
Miss Julia Malek, Miss Frances Schroe-
der. Mrs. q. A. Keliar. Miss w. White.
Miss Alma B. Kellar. J. X. Young. Mrs.
William Soulen, Miss Annie Bernal and
Miss MADEIRA Sparks.