STEAMER COLLISION.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11996, 24 July 1907, Page 3

STEAMER COLLISION.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. ' Received July 523, 11.28 p.m. London, July 23. Router's San Francisco correspondent states tbat the small stumor San Pedro, laden witu iL.j...;, collided at midnight on Saturday off Eureka during a heavy fog with the steamer Columbia, of 2700 tona, 1 which was carrying numerous San Francisco passengers. The San Pedro struck her port bow,' tearing an im- '■ mense bole in the Columbia, whose passengers hurried on deck, where a . wild panic ensued. The Columbia sank in five minutes. A life raft was launched and saved a few. and eight were saved by clinging to the San Pedro. Lloyd's agent states that 100 ] were drowned and that 200 were • saved by a passing steamer. Other • • accounts give the number lost at 150, including the Columbia's captain, j One story states that every woman perished. J