People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — TO BE INVESTIGATED. [ARTICLE]

TO BE INVESTIGATED.

WRECK OF THE COLIMA TO BE LOOKED INTO. Federal Government Will Institute an Inquiry Into the Cause of the Disaster Claims That the Boat Was Overloaded —Looking for Survivors. San Francisco, Cal., June 5.—The federal government Is said to have decided to make a thorough investigation of the Colima disaster, which cost so many lives. It is not improbable that the state authorities may take a hand in the affair and there is already talk of criminal proceedings. The inquiry, it is intended, shall be thorough in every respect. One of the first questions to be discussed in the investigation is the manner in which the ship was loaded. Charges of the most serious character have been made. Mazatlan, June 5.—A telegram received from Acapulco states that the Barracouta arrived there with Chilberg of Seattle, who was seen by Officer Hansen immediately after the disaster on one of the life rafts with six other men, having two oars. The Barracouta also has aboard Johnson, Gonzales, Peters and Crow. There is no news of the Manzanillo survivors found by the steamer Mazatlan. These are supposed to have been those seen in the boat with the first officer and four others and they will probably soon arrive at Mazanillo. There is no news of the purser, who was in the water when the chitef officer tried to pick him up. A telegram direct from Coahuaya says that no women had been saved and no bodies are coming ashore. The survivors from the second life raft are J. J. Noonan, Jose Pegueros, A. S. Martin and two others.