WRECK OF THE GOLDEN CITY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3968, 11 May 1870, Page 4

WRECK OF THE GOLDEN CITY.

1 A passenger supplies the following particulars of this wreck : — "The steamer Golden City, belonging to the Pacific Mail Company, left San Francisco the 18th of February, with about 300 pisseugeis. We had. been out from port about 13 clays and 19 hours, and had run about 1,000 miles, when, on the morning of the 22nrl, the first passengers on deck were al.umed at finding the steamer running head on mto a thick fog, and hearing the heavy roar of the breakers, apparently in close proximity to Point Lazarus, Lower California. Shortly before 7 a.m., just as the tables were let down to breakfast the steerage pai 3 engers, the ship was felt thumping against the bottom, sufficient to cause a rush on deck. She rode over this obstruction, and careeied on with slightly diminished speed. She kept on her course, without any change of position, for about two minutes, when she struck again with great force. It seemed as if it was intended to drive her over this, but all efforts to clear it only drove herfaither on. The engines were then reversed, with a view to backing off. It was too late, she \as hard aground. Her fate was sealed ; at this juncture she caieened from side to side, Avith fearful force, sending men, women, and children, into prostrate masses over the decks. The passengers were all landed safely, and afterwards picked up by the p.s. Coloiado. Most of the baggage was lost," Tb^ steamer Colorado, while on her way up, passed so near the point that she discovered the signals of the wrecked party. The Colorado could not take them aboard at the place of the wreck, but anchored in Sinfca Maria Bay, 25 miles distant, and the passengers had to walk that distance across a deseit of sand hills, and some of them wei e left there. Provisions and water were put ashore for nine passengers left behind.