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Show t COLLIDE 1 AS DAYBREAKS lst, Lawrence River l Steamboat Sunk. jFi've Lives Lost and One Giejjg Hundred Are m- i jD,,K periled. ff TvffiTiy Passengers LoBt All Their taTO Possessions Purser's Fatal Ef-A't Ef-A't fort to Rescue tho-Cash. ijr ONTREAL. Que. Juno 12. The wl Richelieu &. Ontario Navigation ij company's steamboat Canada, bound from Quebec to Montreal, ame Into collision with the Dominion foal company's collier Cape Breton sis llles below Sorel early today. Twenty ilnutes later the Canada -went to the J ottom, At the time of the collision here were 110 people on board the anada. Five were lout, the others ere rescued. Those who perished were: Alfred Thlbeault. the agent of the jtiipany at Quebec. Two sons of Alfred Thlbeault, aged and 15. Purser Bonnetcrre of the Canada. A man named Brunet of Sorel is Isslng and it is supposed that he periled. per-iled. Disaster at Daybreak. The collision occurred just as dawn is breaking. The Cape Breton lay at e entrance of the Lake street plert annel waiting for daylight so as to td her way through. She was getting dor way when the Canada, making r Sorel at full speed, came Into view, st what the collision was rlnt fn mui siKlwho Is responsible for it. has tiot yet :3Kcn determined, for the officers of the 3B$ Canada decline to talk. But from the Am ; statements given out It would appear that the Cape Breton had not got head-i head-i ivay on enough to answer her rudder J""1 tnat no swerved across thr- path 'ARpf the passenger boat, her b'ow striking i?Hglli6 Canada Just forward of the paddle UKftox on the- starboard side and tearing -fit? way half through. L51fy,Tliei tlie Cape Breton swung clear K the two steamers came alongside gwh other. 1The shock of the collision aroused the Nileeping passengers. The Canada at V once began to settle and as the Cape ?wlon did not appear to be seriouslv X. oamaged, the passengers were hurried- If transferred to this steamer. In the awltement sonif of the passengers 1 JarafKHl overpaid and were picked up 3 by boats from the Canada and the j? Cape Breton i Twenty minutes later, when the Can- ada went down alongside the Cape j -Breton all the passengers who could be I m "ad been transferred. Thlbeault and his two sons occupied a stateroom 3j:ear where the Cape Breton's bow en-eretl en-eretl the Canada, and It Is supposed i nut they were killed in their berths. I The body of the father was recovered A Uer in the day. but the remains of g tne uo sons havp not been found. - Tried to Save the Cash. i h?nnu?r.n'' tne luser. was seen after ne collision making his way to his Quarters on the lower deck, with the frWention of saving the cash and the 1 UhJ' !l ,s suPPoed that he per- j L,hed in u,e aitempt. Unmet was. a second-class passenger Lion (h.?e.E:w hlm arier thft collls-lon collls-lon though H Is supposed that he went Mt l th0 crew oC on of HoVW? A-ance arrived about 4 Klflf-. d , ternoon in the steam gue Prefontaine The Prefontaine - Wi n I?MfnKp''B an the crew to th? ,J!y Were brou8ht up to this :) juvvUH( aftc,noon on board the com-; com-; J e steamer Columbian. WfaiEL?? 1,16 Pat8S!nf?crs wh0 occupied s h. lost all their belongings. |