A HARBOR TRACEDY.
STEAMER COLLISION AT MONTE VIDEO. EIGHTY PERSONS DROWNED. United Press Association —Copyright (Received “August 25, 10 p.m.) MONTE VIDEO, August 25. The Argentine, steamer Colombia, with excursionists from Buenos Ayres intending to attend the national fetes at Uruguay, while entering Monte Video outer harbor collided at 6 in the morning with the North German Lloyd’s steamer Schleisen. The former vessel sank. Eighty persons, chiefly excursionists, and mostly women and children, were drowned. Seventy, including the captain and the bulk of the crew, who numbered 48, were saved. , The Schleisen was slightly ,damaged. The Colombia was cut in two. The forepart sank almost immediately. The after portion remained a few minutes above water. The majority of the passengers w'ere asleep when the collision occurred. The panic was terrible. Small steamers hastened to the scene, but a heavy sea and torrents of rain impeded the work of rescue. Many of those rescued, the majority of whom ■were clinging to the masts, were more or less seriously injured. , The fetes have been postponed on account of the catastrophe.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2590, 26 August 1909, Page 5
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178A HARBOR TRACEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2590, 26 August 1909, Page 5
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