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Show ILIVKIt DISAVrUR. I'utul .Stonni bout Collision L.oss ol I.ile uutl Delructton ot Properly. New Orleans, 2, Arrived the Charles Monjan, Irom Cincinnati. Her officers report that at 4 o'clock this morning a collision occurred at Briugier'a Point, opposite Djnalds-ville, Djnalds-ville, between tho Morgan and Culton Yallty, of the Red River Transportation Transporta-tion company's line. Tbe Cut ton Valley Bank and two lives were lost. Tho boat and cargo are a t.ul loss. The Cot Inn V'lll'i lett here yesterday for Red River, with a full assorted cargo and a numb&i of passengers, When the collision occurred tho wind was blowing a g.do and the rain fal iing in torrent h. Tho Morgan w.is coming down and Iho Wilcy going up, both boats rounding tho I'oint. Hie officers of each seeing tbo danger of a collision, stopped the machinery, but the force of the wind and the headway head-way of tho Monjnn wa? so great that her unrdd struck tho Valky with great force, causing the latter to siuk in fifteen minutes. The Yall- was valued at $18,000; insured for $10,000 in New Orleans olrices. The cargo was valued at $75,000; insurance unknown. un-known. Col. Meyer, Daniel Gehr, Henry Levy, merchants of Alexandria, La., and Mi;-s SanLrd, aged 16, ol Jt,dcn county, Virginia, were the only passengers pas-sengers lost. Tho olhcora thiok that twelve or fifteen roustabouts, moslly colored, went down with the boat and were drowned. |