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Disasters At Sea

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Day
17
Month
September
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Atuen's, Sept. 12. - A colusión has laken place off Cape Colonna, the most southern point of Attica, between an Italian steamship, the Taormina, of the Italian Messageries Company, and a Greek sleamship, the Thessalia. The Taormina sank soon after the accident, drowning her captain, seven of her crew and forty of her cabin passengers. The second officer of the Taormina and a number of passengers who were standing on the bridge at the time the collision occurred were saved by tlje boats of the Thessalia. The Taormina left Constantinople Wednesday morning and arrived Thursday night near the island of öaiders, when it sighted a vessel coming toward it. The Taormina repeatedly whistled, but no notice was taken of the signal. The Thessalia, which was going under fully steam, struck the Taormina midships. The panic on the Italian vessel was frightful. Many of the hatehes were open and the shock caused a number of people to be pushed down into the hold and killed outright. Five minutes after tlie ships struck the Thssalia dlsengajfed itself from the Taormina and eontlnued on its course, paying no heed to the Taormina or its signáis of distress. Soiae of the latter's passengers leaped upon the deck of tb.9 Thessalia juSt after the vessels struck, and in this marnier many were saved. Brave Capt. Ferroni, of the Taormina, remained at his post on the bridge and sank with his ship. Caït. Primas declares that the captain of the Taormina must have mistaken its course and must have seen that he (Primas) did what he could, but was unable to prevent the collision. Athens, i-ept. 14. - The corrected estímate of the number of persons drowned by the collision off Cape Cplonna between the ltalian steamship Taormina and the Greek steamship Thessalia shows that sixty-six persons lost their lives. Dublin, Sopt. 18. - A steam launch carrying non-imion laborers from Dublin to Londonderry sank in Lough Foyle Frlday after colliding with ths steamcr Albatross. Fifteen persons were drowned, among them a child of Graeme Ilunter. agent of the London grain federation, who was aboard the launch with his fumily. Halifax, N. 8., Sept. 12. -The twotopmast nshini' sdiooner (ieorgiana is being towed inlo Halifax by tugs. It was found 10 miles off Devü's island, bottora up, by tlie fihing schooner Coronel. The Ueoririana was making Halifax liarbnr on the nijfhtof the hurricane with íi crew oí sixteen men and a cargo of b YJ quintáis of ílsh. lis dories were snuuthed and swept away. It was tlirown upon its beam-end and finally turned bottom up and all its crfew drowned. The lost consists oi two mcmbers of a fitmily named Uoudrot, íour nicinbers of the Le Bla-c family, uve named Porter and five named Surrette. All were from Varinotith. A dispatcli from Yarmouth says that the news of the lgss of the Georgiana eauseil a great shock there, and that the thriving village of Tasket Wedse, where all the young fellows of the crew belonged, is in deep mourning. Vessels arriving at Canso, Sydney, Shelburne and all Atlantic ports bring details of the severity of the g-ale. The fishing fleet on the western banks sufféred severely. One vessel reports having had four of its crew swept overboaixL Scores of vessels lost dories, trawis, sails and other gear, and many men were carried ovorboard.

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