Was Off Her Course

Brest, France, June 19. - The Bri steamship Drummond Caatle, Caj N. M. Pierce. trom Cape Town tor .truck upon a Bunken rook al nighl Tuesciay and sank three mi later, with 144 passengers and 103 officers and crew on board. Two men were picked up floatin sume wreckage by fishermen cíí ut, near which point the Btea a l went down. It is hoped, however, that soine of the passengers and i tped in the boats. Tuga have been sent out from this port to the scène oí the disaster in tb.6 hi pe oí pleking up sonie survivors. The sole survivor at Ushant of the imond Caaile ís a man named MacQuart. Six bodies have airead} l)i( ii 1 1 covered there. The vessel sank and disappeared entircly in about three minutes aftel striking. Only two boats were launched, and oiie of these is believed to havj, !ost. The passengers must hav s leep when the vessel struck. Scafarlng men believe the Drum d Castle, while at full speed, stnick llie lédge, ripped open the water-tight alimenta and the greater part oi he shit 's bottnm, slid aeross the ledge, lown in the deep water on thede. The ledge is near the Island iilene, half way between Ushant ! hé Frenen coast. It 4s thought that important witS ín the trial of Dr. Jameson, and b r cltlzens and mining men of the Trannvaal with their families were on he j ("■sel. adon, June 18. - Inquires made at e of the Castle line oonfirm tches f rom Brest telling of - of thp large passenger Bteam' ummond Castle. The officials ued a statment snying the limumond Castle struck a rock and ■ ir. ccllision with an unknown ;i'Or. Breat, Frame, June 19. - The details re alowly beiag obtained of the loss f the Castle liner Drummond Castle mmd irom Cape Town to London i ! passengers and 103 offieers and ! he steamer was going at full speed bi 'ore midnight Tuesday, June 1 :■;; iround Finesterre from the ay of Biscay and making for the ops of the üritish channel. Off Fin„c-rre is the island of Ushant, about .venty-six miles northwest of thia ;ort, one of a group of some thirty üauds, the largest of which are ant, Molene, LeConquet and SI. tichel. Tlie Drummond Castle, to per a safe course, should have been way, ouiside of Ushant, upon which ' 'i is a lighthouse and signal sta:on. But for some reason not satisactorily explained the steamship eaded inside of Ushant. Between that lOint and the mainland of France is a ; iiie of islands connected by ridges of rock with each other. At different places there are rifts through which vessels can pass safely, but between Ushant and Molene, the latter island being about half way to the mainland, s a sunken reef of rocks with deep water on both sides of it and covered in parts even at the lowest tides. It A-as on this ridge that the Drummond Castle struck while going at full speed. The steamer must have struck so as to tear a big rent in her oottom from stem to stern, thus filling all her watertight compartments almost immediately and sending her to the bottom on the other side of the reef in about three minutes. Only two boats were lowered af ter the Castle liner scruck. One of these capsized and only ihree me;) were savod. out of the 247 ,neople on board. The British second-rli-ss crulser Sybelle, which vas off Usha it a-t the time of the disastci, heyrd the sisr nals of distress and sent 'oa -, to threscue of those on board Uu inki&i vessel, but withoiit avail.