Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-24
COLUMBIA VICTIMS
ARE SADLY MOURNED
o. s. LEWIS AND FAMILY HAD
WARM FRIENDS
Body of Mrs. Lewis Will Be Buried
at Santa Ana-Friends
Supposed to Be
Drowned
Pasadena Agency.
II North Raymond Avenue,
Phones: Sunset 1907. Home 2l24.

PASADENA, July 23.-Five persons,
practically two whole families, are sup
posed to have been lost in the terrible
disaster of the steamship Columbia. They
are the wife of o. S. Lewis of SO North
Ell Moline avenue, his two children, Flor
ence, aged 10 years; Roy, aged Il, and
DIR. and Mrs. ]. Edgar Paul of Iowa, who
were guests at the Lewis home. only
Mr. Lewis, the head of the family, sur
wives, so far as is known.
A telegraphic message to Attorney j.
w. Heffer of Los Angeles this morning.
sent from Eureka by Mr.. Lewis, told
of the loss of his wife and children.
Nothing was known of the fate of DR..
and Mrs. Paul, and it is supposed they
persisted in the sinking ship. The death
of Mrs. Lewis and the two children oc-
Cured practically as told in The Herald
this morning. After being embalmed the
body of Mrs. Lewis will be sent directly
to the home of her sister, Mrs W. Lock-
wood, at 1142 East First street, Santa
Ana, where her father, Frank Holman,
also lives with her sister. 1nterment Will
be made at Santa Ana.
Waiting, waiting, hoping without hope,
Mrs. Eta Goodsell, a cousin of Mr..
Lewis who was in charge of the home
during the absence of the family on
visit to their former home in Washing
ton state, has kept her lonely vigil for
two days, expecting a telegram or some
message frfom Mr.. Lewis. Darkened is
the home so recently crowded with joy
and a funeral air has crept uncalled into
the premises She says Mr.. Lewis has
been a brother to her, and her grief is
almost overlooking.
Friday morning last Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis, their two childreR' and DR.. and
Mrs. Paul, who had been their guests for
some time, started for San Francisco, in
tending to sail by the steamer Columbia
for Washington state. Mr.. Lewis had not
intended to make the visit to the old
home so early, but was persuaded by Dr.
Paul to accompany him and his wife
now as they were going to Washington
for a stay on their way east. Mr.. Lewis
is a cousin of Mr.. Paul
His mother lives in Washington and it
was to visit her they were making this
trip. They came to Pasadena last fall
from Gold Bar, near Everett, in which
vicinity Mr.. Lewis had made a fortune
of several hundred thousand dollars in
the lumber business. He is still a young
man, being only >43 years old. He is a
native of Laceyville, Pennsylvania, but
went to Seattle soon after the great fire
at that place. A sister at Tacoma and
one at Sherlock Washington, and two
brothers at Gold Bar are near relatives
on the coast.
MIS-. LEWIS was poAoIc hel dIIlaSO
May Holman of near Bay City, Mich
igan. Her father, Frank J. Holman, is
now a we'll known resident of Santa Ana.
Mr.. ]. L. Atteberry of 31S East Villa
street Pasadena, is an intimate and old
time friend of the Lewis family. 1t was
to him that Mr.. Lewis came on a visit
after selling out his lumber business in
Washington a year ago, and finally de-
cided to buy a home here. He had re-
tired frfom business temporarily to take
years rest. Mr.. Atteberry sadly
mourns the terrible disaster. He speaks
in highest terms of the Lewis family.
Mr.. Heffner, the Los Angeles attorney,
who was an intimate friend of Mr.. Lewis,
started for Eureka as soon as he read of
the wreck of the Columbia, knowing that
his friends were aboard that vessel. The
kilograms came to his office after he had
started north.