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Met Death At Sea

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Day
29
Month
October
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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London, Oct 27.- The British steamer Boston from Cardiff for London has arrfved at Falmouth af ter having been in collision with the British bark Charlwood, 759 tons, Captain Salmón, from Antwerp for Valparaíso. Th Charlwood foundered alraost immediately after the collision with a losa of sixteen lives. Three men were killed on board the Boston at the time of the collision and the steamer's boats were badly stove in. The captain of the Charlwood, his -wife, son and a (roverness and the stewardess, together with all the bark's officer and six of the seamen, a total of siiteen persons, were drowned in spite of desperate efforts made by the lifeboats of vessels which happened to be near the scène of the collision to reseñe them. The efforts of the would-be life-savers were gTeatly hampered by the darkness which prevailed at the time the accident took place, 4:45 in the morning. The spot where the two vessels met was not far from the Eddystone rocks, 14 miles from Plymouth. Only an apprentice and the captain's daughter were saved. HORRIBLK DISASTER IN FRANCE. Paris, Oet. 27. - A passenger train on the railway between Lyons and Grenoble was derailed near Moirans Monday and ran over an embankment. A number of the carriages were telescoped and fifteen persons were killed and fifty seriously injnred. The train, which was running at a high rate of speed at the time of the accident, was drawn by two locomotives. The accident occurred in a steep incline anfl curve and is supposed to have been due to a defect in the brake of the second locomotive. The embankment over which the train rolled is 40 feet high. Fifteen of the injured are in a critical condition.

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Ann Arbor Register