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Show LOSS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK. Hew a llilinlnf aalllaa tei.rl. Ia.lra Kllhl.al, l.ke.1 In line .r Ilia Crew Ciptnin It Dicklnaon lato cum tnandcr of tho four InnatMl .inerl ian ahip Ita jmhanmick, which vm liumi1!! to tlie wut rn cilgimt Juan FcnmniUit m Kov 10, 1S91, camo from Vulimniutu uu thu tnilor Haiti lnoro tlirougli thu kliulncmof Cay tnln Hi liloy Willi Mm were Ills wife onil ilnughtcniUnico ntiil lkwie, nml fit oof hU eblpTTikil cruw Tlio ItAppahnnnock lind a cargu of 1 COO tone of coal "At loj brmk on Kov 9 " nai 1 ono of tho crow ' amoko wna ccn Iwulng f rmn tho forward liatth Tl.o captain cap-tain ordered thin lmttcnnl ilonn, anil wo tf i roil for.Iuan Fernando foinml, which o hail jiaewil thoiliy tajforc, and wcro pllotol In tho liarlwr by a mtivo who uimo off In n amnll liont, hrlnKiUr,- two nitl nml aomo llah That night tho uiptaln mnt lila fain ily ufdiore. tho UxitA wrro unUrii) IirovWonoil nml tlio crow took up their altijilntf quartipi on ilrck Alajiit mllnUiit Iho lint pTptoidnn took plncc, blowing lliu top off tlio puinp nUift tho malnmaat "Tho IjoaU wi ro onhnnl lowered, tho mill trot nil tlielr clothe anil bo-longlnga bo-longlnga nml wocomminceilRettlnij wh it provialom aahoro u could At tho link of thi Ir ll on tho crow m i1 n gov) many thlntra, tho ahlji blow InR up In ilucra nii-unwhllo At dawn tlio oxplmlon lieenmo mom frrnieiit nml moro violent IWoro BiiiiriM) n liont with n aenman nml H'loml natiM-H wint off to acuttlo tho ahlp. T hey (hoiijieil n holo In lur Klilo but thu f-ii lifted her out of thowiitir nml their nttimpt to alnk tho ahlp failed About C a. in. tho furecoAtlu nntl funenatlo hind blow up lifting tho loiu lxit into tho air and h tllni; it fill on tho (rnlley lo o-tiitM o-tiitM wluro it nmuiited, nml nhm bluwinx tlio forn hntch Into tho tig (ring Hoon after thla tho ntur hatch noA blonniin" Tlio native wero then (rlcn Ilo miwjii to aao wlmt atom they could Kntliing but amoko hail loured out of thu hold up to thla time, MliLiin big llamo ahot out of tho nfli r hatch Tlio apanker liooin rnuujht fliv uiul tho IHmeHepniid up tlio rlpcinn nud out on tho ) unbj, looHtiihu ami buniin tho eaila ' In n few iiiinutea tlio ahip m nblao foro nud nft. nloft ami nlow An hour nflirwiml tho luiMxiiimiKt fill nml waa followed by thu innlu topi;illant mnat Ono ajmr followeil nnother until only tlio fonmnat mid fori j anl wero lift TliU muat did not fall until tho naxt day Tlio UToat nun of coal in tho hold of tho chili burned with n rvir that could laihi-anl formlki, nlillonnimminao culuinn of black smoku nuchal high , Into tho uir " I Thu ahlp bumial to tho water edge, ulun thohull ennk. Han I'nui-1 cbtco Cliruiililo I |