The Columbia

WADDILL, District Judge.

On the morning of the 2d of February, 1909, a few minutes before 7 o’clock, the Milton S. Lankford, a smáll twó-masted schooner, G3 feet long, 1G feet beam, and of the burden of 40 tons gross,, laden with 981 bushels of oysters, while en route-from'Norfolk to Cape Charles, Va., in the Elizabeth river, just below and in the immediate vicinity of Crany Island Light, came into collision with the- steamship Columbia, one of the line steamers of the Chesapeake Steamship Company, plying between Baltimore and Norfolk, bound into Norfolk. The tide was running strong flood,…