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Show STEAMER ASHORE; WILL BE TOTAL LOSS BLOCK ISLAND, R. I.. March 20. The steamer Spartan of the Boston and Philadelphia Phila-delphia Steamship company's line, which ran aground on the cast side of the island yesterday, while on her way from Provi-iVnce Provi-iVnce to Philadelphia, was subjected t such a fearful battering during the night from a heavy northeast gale and sea that Ht dawn todiy the chances of saving her seemed almost hopeless. Captain Hriggs mid four of his crew still remained on board, but .it the peril of their lives. The Spartan went ashore at high tide, and rested en great boulders, several of which had ' iened her lxttom and stove a large hole in her forward compartment. |