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Show ioo Drown. San Francisco, July 22. In one of the worst marine disasters in tho history of tho California coast, between 100 and 150 lives wore lost, as far as has been learned, by a midnight collision between the steamer Columbia und tho steam lumber schooner SanPcdro, in Shelter Cove, twelve miles southwest! of the Mcndocinn-IIum. boldt county line, between 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning Only meager details of tho tragedy havo been received, though every effort has been made to got the facts, Scores of telegrams toEur-eka, toEur-eka, the nearest point of importance, impor-tance, remain unanswered. The few details known here were brought by tho steamer Roanoko nnd the steam schooner Daisy Mitchell, which arrived in San Francisco this forenoon. The Columbia, a 300-foot stool vessel of theSnuFroneisco & Portland Port-land Steamship company, while bound from San Francisco for Portland, Ore., with 189 passengers passen-gers and a crow of GO, collided 1 with nnd was rammed by tho Son i Pedro,n 100-foot wooden sohooner , southbound for this city. Tho sea wns smooth but itJto weather wns foggy. Tho Snn Pedro, looming out of the mist n few ship lengths" H away, bore down on thcColumbia ''tl at nigh speed, despite frantic ef- 'H forts ito clear, nnd with a grinding crash sank her stem fully ten feet tkl into the Columbia's port bow. iH Nearly all of tho Columbia's 9 pascngers and many of her crow fLI wcro asleep in their cabins nnd lH bunks when tho crash came. As lH the Snu Pedro backed away tho lH sen poured in through the ragged il hole in the Columbia's bow above Ifl and below lier water lino nnd in Pl five nihilities the vessel sank to the "' bottom, tho deep waters of Shel- IH ter Cove covering oven tho tips of her masts. '1 |