OCR Text |
Show APPALLING DISASTER OVERTIME!! Two Hundred Passengers Missing, Miss-ing, of Whom Many Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly Have Perished. TOKJO. July 24. Tho Totsurci-Maru, Totsurci-Maru, plying between Kobe and Dai-rcn, Dai-rcn, sank last night off Chindo, Korea. TliC'Steamor had 24G passengers aboard, of whom forty wore saved. The others arc missing. Warships have been sent to the rescue. Direct reports from Chindo state that two of the Totsurei 's lifeboats landed forty passongers, who toll of harrowing harrow-ing scenes when the befogged vessel struck. Six lifeboats were launched and filled with passengers. There was no panic and everything was carried off in tho most orderly manner. The captain and a majority of tho crew were unable to leave the steamer. Six first-class passonfers wore saved, including W. Cunningham, the Britisji vice consul at Osaku, as well as thirteen second-class passengers. Ono hundred and five third-class pas-seugors pas-seugors and fifty-nine soldiers were taken off in boats, and there is reason to believe that these boats cither reached laud or were picked up by the warships. Tho Tetsurei-Maru was of 2100 tons register. She was .built at Nagasaki, and was owned by the Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha. |