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Show TWO STEAMERS WRECKED- IDi.a.trr. C'au.ad hy the Den.e Fog In the Kntl.h Channrl. Lonpon, Jan. 3. During a dense fog in the British channel this morning off Dungness, a collision occurred between two steamers, in which the oil laden steamer Caroline Robert Do Massy was sunk. Tho crew escaped in boats. Evidence of another serious disaster was found on the coast at Deal, not far from Dover, whero the carcasses of a number of bullocks were washed up. Brass plates upon the horns of two of these animals were marked 3445, U. S. A., and 3871, U. S. A. Tierces of beef were also found floating float-ing about the Goodwin sands. It is supposed the wreckage was tho result of the sinking of a cattle ship from the United Slates. Baltimore, Jan. 3. Dr. Favile, local government inspector of cattle here, states that the carcasses of the cattle found on the coast of England today bearing the United States inspector's inspec-tor's plates upon their horns, were part of the cargo of tho steamship Nessmore, which left Baltimore on December 10, bound for London and already reported , arrived out. The steamship Thane-more Thane-more left Baltimore November 20 for England with several hundred cattle aboard. Nothing has been heard of her since then. New York, Jan. 8. A cablegram received here todav announcing that carcasses of two bullocks found in the English channel were suppofed to have been part of the cargo of an American vessel and it is feared this might in-dicato in-dicato some disaster but shippers here aeem to think the cattle were only washed overboard. At the Maritime exchange no word was received today of any disaster. |