Show SCHOONER IS IN DISTRESS san tedro cal cepl 6 sunday evening the schooner J M coleman struck a sunken reef near san miguel island about eighty five miles north of this port and may prove a total loss mate jameson and four sailors arrived here today in a small boat bringing intelligence of the disaster the captain and tour sailors remained on the schooner while awaiting help which probably will be dispatched to them at once the mate and his men left the wrecked schooner an fn a row boat for san pedro and had a hard struggle until they reached a point sixteen miles off the coast where they were picked up by the steamer mandalay bound tor san diego the coleman was laden with feet of lumber and was bound from everett wash for san pedro on account of a heavy fog extra precautions were being taken at the time the schooner struck and she was making about six miles an hour and the first intimation those on board had of danger was when she piled up on the reef |