SHIPPING DISASTER.
♦ TWO STEAMERS COLLIDE. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. (Press Assn.—By Telegraph— Copyright). LONDON, July 23. Reuter's San Francisco correspondent stateg tliat tho small steamer San Pedro, laden with lumber, collided at midnight on Saturday off Eureka in a heavy tfog with the steamer Columbia, 2700 tons, carrying numerous San Francisco passengers. '.-. '. The San Pedro struck the port bow of the 'Columbia, tearing an immense hole. The passengers hiirTied on deck, where ':' a wild panic ensued. The Columbia, siai&k in five minutes. A life raft was launched and saved a few. . " ■ .;.;'. y ' Eight were savedby clinging to the San Pedro. 1 Lloyd's states that 100 were drowned, v and 200 saved by a passing steamer. Other accounts give the number lost at 150, including tlie Columbia's captain. One Btdry states tliat everyone onboard perished. (Received July 24, 8.28 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. One hundred and forty-four o_ the, Columbia's survivors Have arrived at Eureka. The total number of casualties is estimated at 69. ;.',,* y 1 [The Columbia was a steamer of 2772 tons, belonging td the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. She was built j,n 1880, arid was registered at Portland, Oregon.]
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11123, 24 July 1907, Page 2
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