COLLISION AT SEA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14432, 24 July 1907, Page 7

COLLISION AT SEA.

A STEAMER SUNK. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. A WILD PANIC. United Press Association—By Bleotrio Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 23, 11.38 p.m.) LONDON, July 23. .Router's San Francisco correspondent states that the small steamer San Pedro, laden with lumber, collided at midnight on,Saturday off Eureka, in a heavy fog, with the steamer Columbia, of 2700 tons, carrying numerous San Francisco passengers. The San Pedro struck the port bow, tearing an immense hole in the Columbia. The passengers hurried" on deck, where a wild panic ensued. Tha Columbia sank in five minutes. A |ife-raft was launched, and a few. Eight were saved by clinging to the San Pedro.

j .Lloyd's states that 100 were drown«d, and 200 saved by a passing steamer. I Other accounts give the number lost at 150, including the Columbia's captain. One story states that every woman perished.