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July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

Posted: 16 Dec 2004 8:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 22 Feb 2006 9:27PM GMT
Am looking for information/newspaper articles about the Steamship Columbia, sunk off Shelton Cove, California, in collision with steamship San Pedro; 100 lives lost. Occurred in July 1907. Columbia was a steamship from Portland Oregon -making trips to San Francisco.

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

The Masked Researcher (View posts)
Posted: 31 Dec 2004 1:07AM GMT
Classification: Query
There is some information in "Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast" by James A. Gibbs, Jr.

What are you looking for specifically?

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

Posted: 4 Jan 2005 6:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 22 Feb 2006 9:27PM GMT
I'd like to find some copies of newspaper articles about the wreck as I had a relative that died in the accident. But I would also like more general information about the wreck. All I have is the date and the location - though I'm not sure where Shelton Cove is. Do you know if the book you mentioned is currently in print?

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

The Masked Researcher (View posts)
Posted: 5 Jan 2005 6:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
There are copies of the book available at amazon.com. While I was waiting for your reply I did find some newspaper articles at the library.

The shipwreck was actually at Shelter Cove, which is just south of Eureka, California.

What was the name of your relative?

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

Posted: 5 Jan 2005 8:59PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 22 Feb 2006 9:27PM GMT
Terrific! Her name was Minnie Souls (wife of William Souls). She had only been married for a year. She was the grand-daughter of Benjamin Cornelius - a famous pioneer in Oregon.

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

The Masked Researcher (View posts)
Posted: 6 Jan 2005 6:20PM GMT
Classification: Query
According to "Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast" by James A. Gibbs, Jr. (pages 218-220):

"On the night of July 20, 1907, the passenger liner Columbia was bound for Puget Sound from San Francisco. Off Shelter Cove, south of Mendocino Cape, a ship's whistle was heard off the starboard bow. The night was black and filtered with patches of fog. . .Suddenly the running lights of the nearby ship came into view. . .[which] plunged squarely into the side of the Columbia. . .[they had been] rammed by the steam schooner San Pedro, fully laden with lumber. The collision was no brush, but a motral wound, a gash 30 feet abaft for the Columbia's stem on the starboard side. . .The Columbia was carrying 249 passengers. So quickly did the sinking occur that many of the ship's company were carried down the ship without ever stepping foot on deck. . .As the disabled San Pedro floundered about, some 70 survivors of the liner were taken aboard. . .as she [San Pedro] drifted away from the scene of the wreck, the SS George W. Elder, answering the call of distress, searched the scene and picked up 88 survivors..."

There is quite a bit more information in the San Francisco newspapers, along with a few pictures of passengers, both who survived and didn't. Though, I didn't see one for Mrs. Soules.

There were lists of those saved and those who were lost. This is a list of those who weren't saved:

CABIN PASSENGERS: Mrs. R. Anderson, Franklin Aulf, W.J. Bachman, Alma Bahleen, Mrs. J. Benson, Miss A. Bernal, Mrs. Jane E. Best, Gertrude Butler, W.E. Butler, Mrs. W.E. Butler, Mrs. R.B. Cannon, Miss Clara Carpenter, J.W. Carpenter, L. Clasby, Mrs. L. Clasby, Marion Clasby, Steven Clasby, Miss Lena Cooper, Miss A.B. Cornell, Mrs. A.F. Cornell, L.L. Drake Jr., J.C. Durham, Mrs. K. Fagalde, Miss Mabel Gerter, Mrs. Blanche R. Gordon, Mrs. A. Gray, Mrs. A. Happ, C.H. Harrington, Miss K. Hayden, L.E. Hill, E.B. Keever, Miss Alma B. Kellar, Miss Effie B. Kellar, Miss Grace F. Kellar, Mrs. G.A. Kellar, Florence Lewis, Mrs. O.S. Lewis, Ray Lewis, E. Liggett, Mrs. B. Lippman, Lewis Malkus, Mrs. Lewis Malkus, Julia Matek, L. Mero, John B. McFadyen, Miss Margaret McKeaney, Chew Moch, Miss Louise G. Nake, Miss Nellie A. Nake, Miss Mary Parsons, J.E. Paul, Miss Frances Schroeder, Miss Cora Schull, G.A. Smith, MRS. WILLIAM SOULES, George Sparks, J.D. Springer, Miss Elsie May Stone, Miss A.S. Todd, W.C. Todd, Miss B. Wallace, Miss Edna Wallace, Mrs. S. Waller, William Waller, Miss W. White, G.F. Wilson, C.A. Winslow, Mrs. C.A. Winslow, Mrs. H.P. Winters, Roland Winters, Miss H. Wright, J.K. Young.

STEERAGE PASSENGERS: Frank Giune, M. Mayo, C.W. Merrill, John Miller, J. Premus, E. Silva, Mrs. E. Silva, A. Spieler, B. Viants.

CREW: P.A. Doran, Captain; W.F. Whitney, First Officer; C. Christensen, P. Hinner, Quartermasters; H.C. Dupree, First Assistant; Max Claus, Second Assistant Engineer; C. Petersen, Seaman; W.T. Anderson, --- Alexander, Water Tenders; Ed Larkin, J. Maddison, Oilers; A. Schneider, Baker; Frank D. Davis, Second Cook; E.R. Drayer, Pantryman; J.G. Alley, R.J. Alley, Al L. BLocker, Waiters.

Source--San Francisco Call, July 23, 1907, page 2.

Here's the actual image from the newspaper:
http://xs10.xs.to/pics/05014/missing.jpg

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

Posted: 6 Jan 2005 11:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 22 Feb 2006 9:27PM GMT
Thank you soooo much! This is extremely helpful. I'll see if I can locate some newspaper articles in Portland, Oregon as well. Thanks again!

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 1:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Stone
My great grand aunt was Miss Elsie May Stone. I am so glad I found this information too.

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 2:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 20 Sep 2013 3:18AM GMT
Surnames: Hayden
I have posted copies of the of newspaper articles from the San Fransisco Call newspaper on my tree for "Miss K Hayden" who was lost on the ship. I will be adding more newspaper copies and letter that was sent from someone on the ship on the companies stationary and also the telegraph that was received about the shipwreck.

Here is a link to the link to Alida K Hayden:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/58514483/person/36062292025

Hopefully the link works since I'm new to Ancestory.com and not sure how everything works.

Re: July 1907 Shipwreck at Shelton Cove, CA

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 2:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 12 Jan 2015 2:57AM GMT
There were many errors in several newspapers across the nation. I did find two articles, of the many that were written, that listed Minnie Souls.

The shipwreck you are referring to is "Shelter Cove", Eureka, Mendocino County, California.
The newspaper erroneously called it "Shelton Cove".

Minnie Souls is on the passenger list as Mrs. W. H. Souls in the New York Times July 23, 1907

Los Angeles Herald Newspaper,
Volume 34, Number 295,
23 July 1907
The following is the list of drowned or unaccounted for: (among many other names)
Mrs. William Soule (Surname was misspelled in the article.)



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