People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — CLAIMED BY DEATH. [ARTICLE]

CLAIMED BY DEATH.

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTYTHREE LIVES LOST. AU But Nineteen of the Passenger* and Crew of the Pacific Mail Company's Steamer Colima Go Down with the Boat Off the Mexican Coast. San Francisco, Cal., May 29.—The steamship Colima, witly 182 persons aboard, including passengers and crew, foundered Monday off the coast of Mexico. Fourteen passengers and five members of the crew have reached Manzanilla, Mexico, and they gave the first Information of the vessel’s fate. Whether the remainder of the passengers and crew escaped in small boats or went down with the ship is not known. The Colima sailed from San Francisco May 18 for Panama and way ports. Slje carried 112 passengers, forty in the cabin and thirty-six white people and fortysix Chinese in the steerage. The officers and crew numbered seventy. Following is the list of cabin passengers and their respective destinations: C. H. E. Orme, New York; J. E. Roberts, New York; Mrs. J. E. Roberts, New York; Prof. Harold Whiting, New York; Mrs. Whiting and four children. Miss Helen Muller, New York; W. H. Adler, New York; W. H. Bryan, New York;,C. H. Cushing, San Jose de Guatemala; George S. Cushing, San Jose de Guatemala; John N. Thornton, San Jose de Guatemala; Mrs. Charles Thornton, San Jose de Guatemala; Miss Jessie Davis, San Jose de Guatemala; Lewis H. Peters,, San Jose de Guatemala; J. E. Chilborg, Acajutla; Lang Chong and wife, Acajulta; Domingo Albano, San Jose; Charles Stuckman, San Jose; J. W. C. Maxwell, Mazatlan; S. M. R. Muller, Matilda Phelps, Calloaj'T. F. Bell, Mazatlan; U. S. American, Mazatlan; Geo. V. Gray, Mazatlan; A. J. Sutherland, San Jose; Ricardo Merlos, Acajultla; 8. F. Grisby, Mazatlan; C. Irving, San Benito; Mrs. L. R. Brewer and family, one servant and children, San Benito; Alfred Alonzo, San Benito. In the steerage bound for New York;. H. V. Uniona, W. P. Buckley, Johannes J. Monwens, John W. Crew, Gustave A. Mewls, G. D. Ross, C. Wolske, J. H. W. Smith, L. L. Sangaree, Dennis Carey, J. Schoenfeldt, J. W. Boyd, C. L. Coolidge, D. Constantinesco, R. Torevo, G. Rowan, Peter Golatas, F. Bolalean, John Keller, Albert Morton, Charles Romein, Allen McMorrlll, Mrs. May McMorrlll, George Farrell, Mrs. A. Glock children, John Stein, for San Jose de Guatemala; Antonio Ramiz, Jose Desame, Jose Antonio Saliz, Jose Merel, Breno Cerda, Felix Silvera, C. W. McCutchin, San Blas, Mrs. Diaz, Manzanilla, T. J. Oriel, San Benito.

Officers of the Colima: J. F. Taylor, captain; D. E. Griffiths,,, ffiwt officer; George Langbourne, seco.id officer; O. Hansen, third officer; W. T. Kirby, surgeon; William Wolfor, purser; T, E. Berry, freight clerk; O. K. Richardson, storekeeper; William A. Smith, chief engineer; E. D. Reardon, first assistant engineer; H. Finley, second assistant engineer; A. Tommerg, third assistant engineer. The first Information of the loss of the steamer reached this city in a dispatch received by H. E. Alfred Railton, a bookkeeper in the office of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, from O. K. Richardson. Richardson was the storekeeper on the Colima and is one of the few at this time known to have escaped from the sinking vessel alive. A few moments later a telegram was received from the company’s agent at Manzanilla to the effect that the ship had gone down and that fourteen passengers and five of the crew had reached shore in a small boat. Just how many of the passengers were aboard the vessel when the accident occurred which sent her to the bottom cannot be ascertained. The vessel stops at slazatlan and San Blas before reaching Manzanilla and passengers were lande'd arid taken bn ’ at' both places. The Colima was. due at nilla Sunday, May 26. The dispatches show that the vessel foundered Monday off Manzanilla, which would indicate that some accident to the machinery occurred and prevented her from reaching the port of Manzanilla. The officers of the Pacific Mail Steamship company do not believe the vessel struck a hidden ledge. They are more inclined to think that the cause of the disaster was an accident to the machinery. They believe that the loss of life will prove U> be much less than at present feared. The vessel had six lifeboats ready to be ‘aunched at a moment’s notice.