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Show FORTY SAILORS PERISHED. British Steamer Claverlng Swept Ashore by Gale at Mouth ' of River Tees. London. Tho British steamer Cla-voriug, Cla-voriug, Cnptalu Uarton, of 3,000 tons gross, outward bound for Japan, wns blown-ashoro by a heavy galo nt tho mouth of tho river Tees Thursday night. Llfo boats inado efforts all through tho next day to rcscuo tho crow of tho ship, most of whom nro Lascars. Some woro landed, but forty ro still unaccounted for. Tho chlof officer and two Lascar woro drowned througu tho swamping of a boat. Tho cxtrcmo vlolenco of tho galo nnd tho tremundous seas that swopt ever tho vessel compolled tho llfo boat men to abandon their efforts at rescue. |