Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-07-23 | Page 10 | Loss of Columbia.

THE LOSS OF THE HE COLUMBIA Another of those terrible aC accidents costing the lives of seventy people has happened off that ill-fated ill l Mendocino no Cal coast A beautiful steamer steamer- was struck by a a. freight schooner and in five minutes went down It was in ill a dense fog and possibly could couldn n not t have hae been avoided voided but for alm almost t seventy years the have been traversing the stormy and foggy Atlantic and h have ve lost but three thre or four lives by accident and these were washed overboard when the great sl slip ship ip was wa's plunging in perfect Ct security through ugh the heavy seas The Col Columbia was was not a new ship but she was wasa a a most staunch and beautiful one The acci accident lent will cast casta a gloom over th the coast for seventy es lives are arc a fearful tribute to pay to the fog and the sea sea The bones of many a good ship str strew strew w that coast and many a splendid life has gone out there I