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Show THREE HUNDRED LIVES ARE LOST II 1.11 I. ! I.talian Steamship, With 800 Souls on Board, Wrecked Off Hormigas Island A Numbsr of Fishermen Who Attempt to Rescue the Terror-stricken Pas sengers Are Drowned Captain of lll-Fated Vessel Takes His Own Life. Cartngenn, Spain. A terrible marine disaster occurred Baturday ovenlng oft Capo Palos. The Italian steamship 8lrio, from Genoa for Barcelona, Cadiz, Ca-diz, Montevideo and Duonos Ayrcs. with about 800 persons nboaVd, iw wrtxked off Hormigas island. Thre hundred Immigrants, most of them Italians nnd Spaniards, were drowned. Tho captain of tho stonmshlp com. mltted suicide. Tho bishop of San Pedro, Drozll, nlse was lost, and It is reported that another an-other bishop Is nmong the mlSBing. Tho remainder of the passengers and tho officers and crow got away In tho ship's boats or wero roscued by means of boats sent to them from tho shore. A number of fishermen who mado attempts at rescue wore drowned. Thoso rescued from tho vessel nro now nt Cape Palos In a pltlablo condition, condi-tion, being without food or clothing. , Tho Slrlo struck a rocky roof known as Bajos Hormigas nnd sank soon afterward, aft-erward, stern first. Hormlgna Island, lies about two and' a half miles to tho eastward of Cape Palos. The Slrlo was owned by the Navlga. ilona Itallana, of Oonoa. Before he committed sulcldo, the captain declared the steamer had C45 passengers oft board and that h'er crew, numbered 127 men. Tho Slrlo had 67JI passengers when leaving Genoa, bfl additional Spanish passengers taken aboard nt Barcelona, where ! vessel touched n few hours before JM 61saiter. .'H |