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Show NO HOPE OK SAVING STEAMER MINNEHAHA 1 1 UGHTOWN. SL Mary's, Scllly Islands, April 19. Throe small steamers and a schooner tonight are standing by the wreck of the Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha, which Is lying off tho rocks here. All hope of saving the steamer has practically been abandoned. At noon today, when the tide was high, evorv-body evorv-body was ordered off tho ship for fear she would slip from the reef and go to the bottom. Everything except sixty cattle and some of the cargo havo been safely landed, but there Is no food for the cattle cat-tle here. Tho officers and crew returned to their labors after the tide lowered. They hope to get tho rest of the cargo and cattle ashoro tomorrow. |