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Survivors in Shelter Cove Wreck Reached Sixteen
At Francisco on July 24 the Columbia wreck left sixteen more survivors aboard the vessel landing at Shelter Cove. Three bodies recovered and ninety unaccounted. list now shows 160 survivors from 57 aboard. Officers and crew testified on collision with the steamship San Pedro about foggy weather and a starboard collision. Women survivors praised, men denounced for aiding.
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Shelter Cove
Francisco
Columbia-San Pedro
Shel ‘Er Cove
B. B. Kriever
Prescott
Jacob Kuro
Coldwater
Kan
Armand Cardoote
New Bedford
Mass
W. F.whitnes
Columbia
Pdint Arena
Voonn
Ferey
Sapdey
Agerupp
Robert Hawse
San Pedro
George W. Elder