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Show TWENTY LIVES LOST. Sloop Kearsarge Goes Down, Only Nine on Board Escaping. New Orleans. A dispatch from Bluefield gives the details of the loss of the sloop Kearsarge on the night of March 13 between Monterey Point and Greytown, Xicaraugua. Twenty people perished when the boat went down. The captain, cook, two sailors sail-ors and five passengers succeeded in reaching shore in a small boat. The Kearsarge was a small vessel of about 25 tons. It went to Bluefields from St. Andrew's islands with a. cargo of cocoanuts and took on twenty-five passengers at Bluefields, it is stated, bound for Bocas del Toro, Jamaica. |