Show The Sinking of the Chlldxvell LONDON Jan 4The steamer Nordland which was in collision with the British bark Childwell the latter going down with fifteen of the crew returned to Antwerp with the bows stove in The pilot of the Childwell says he saw the steamers light fifteen minutes before tho collision She suddenly starboarded her helm apparently ap-parently intending to cross the bows of the bark The pilot shouted a warning to the crew but before they could get up the vessels met The Childxvall was cut from the port side through to within six feet of the staaboard side and sank in two minutes The sea was high and there was no chance to lower the boats Nine of the men climbed into the rigging part of the mizzenmast and end of the bowsprit remaining above the water Of fifteen drowned twelve perished in the ship the other three washed off the bowsprit when the tide rose The pilot says the Nordland stood by an hour and lowered two boats which failed to reach the shipwrecked men owing to the rough sea He thinks the men on the bowsprit at least might have been saved After being four hours lashed to the mizzen mast in bitter cold the steamer Ipswich hove in sight and they were rescued |