Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-25
AWAIT ARRIVAL OF
WRECK SURVIVORS
THRoNG OF ANXIOUS ONES GREET SHIP BRINGING
REFUGEES FROM SEA
Thousands of People Steasn
Elder Approaches Dock Bearing Rescued Passengers
from the Ill-Fated Columbia

heard the whistles and put on life pre-
server and one on his wife.
He then helped her to the upper deck
and they both jumped into the water
almost alongside a boat into which they
got.
Kline says the San Pedro whistled
twice. then the Columbia twice, giving
the San Pedro the right of way. He
| concluded there was misunderstanding
between the bridge and the engine room,
for the crash followed
| Russell who was fireman on the
| Columbia, says that when he was com
ing up out of the water tender he heard
the whistles.
He put his head out of a port hole
and saw the schooner coming and stood
there till they struck He then went to
his room and put what money he had in
| his pockets
| The first assistant engineer then sent
| for the water tenders to go down to the
| fire ROOM Russell's partner N. G. An
| derson, went below and was drowned.
as was another water tender, George
Alexander.
Russell went up to the port side of the
ship but could not find life preserver.
He stayed there until the Columbia went
down and he was carried down with the
| suction
He came up and the first thing he got
al
shortly afterward pulled onto a raft,
where he lay for six hours.
| There was an old gentleman on the
raft reported to be wealthy, but he died
almost Immediately from exposure. Rus
| sell picked up little dog which was in
the water. 1t had been chained on the
Columbia, but the watchman cut it
loose.
Captain Doran's Bravery
III &c o5c
fectly. AS the ship was sinking he said
Good by, God help you. I've done all
| l can."
The SURVIVORS say they want justice
done the crew of the San Pedro, the ves-
sci which has caused so much anguish
| The crew of the San Pedro worked to a
man to rescue the Columbia's people,
even while it was feared that the steam
schooner was herself going down. And
the survivors unite in paying the high
est praises to the citizens of Eureka, who
not only clothed. fed and sheltered them
but even gave them money.
| Nearly all the survivors saw or heard
Capt. Doran during those few minutes
when the ship was going down, and there
is no word of censure for him.
II am your captain, do not be excited.
Keep cool, don life preservers," shouted
| Capt. Doran, standing on the hurricane
deck with arms spread out appealingly
1 toward the people whose lives were en-
trusted to his care.
i Hand up the women he continued
and himself lifted them from below to the
deck, where a number were Immediately
| swept overheard to watery grave.
The coolest head on the ship Capt
| Doran at the same time was giving or
ders and assisting the women. was
throwing life preservers into the ocean
in the hope that they might be picked up
| by unfortunates who had been swept
overheard or who had jumped without
the preservers.
Saved Others; Sacrificed Himself
Having given his final orders Capt
Doran said, "She is gone" and going to
the bridge with his first officer he blew
the whistle and cried good by until the
waves rolled over his head
The captain and his first officer made
no attempt to save themselves, not even
donning a life preserver.
The preservers on the Columbia were
good, and were the means of saving the
lives of nearly every one who was res
cued.
Fully half the passengers were COM
PEELED to leap from the deck of the
Columbia into the ocean without cloth
fng enough to cover them.
The life preservers kept them afioat
until the San Pedro or the Elder picked
them up.
Bert Lippman of San francisco, who
was separated from his wife. foated for
four hours by means of his life pre-
server. Later his wife was rescued and
both came north on the Elder
Miss Mary Walker of Echo, Miss, was
two hours on one of the life buoys
Owing to the list of the Columbia. ONLY
the boats on one side could be cut away
and lowered Women had to jump down
into the sea, although few were lowered
into them by means of ropes.
On reaching the San Pedro they were
hauled up by means of a rope passed
under their arms, and half dead, cold,
miserable and despairing they were
dragged UP to the top of the lumber pile
on the deck.