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Show BIG STEAMER ASHORE, BUT PASSENGERS SAFE. KET WEST. Fla., Oct. 20. The French trans-Atlantic steamer Loulslano, from Havre for Havana and New Orleans. Is ashore on Sombero reef, about thirty miles east of here. About half of her 547 passengers have been brought here and the others aro thought to bo not In danger- News of the Louislanc's plight and the rescued passengers was brought here todav by tho United States revenue cutter cut-ter Forward. The cutter will return to take the rest of the passengers from the wreck this afternoon. The steamer struck In the hurricane on Monday. he lies only eight feet out of water and it will be impossible to float her until her cargo has been jettisoned. The French :Iner sailed for this country coun-try by way of Corunnal. Spain, and Tenerlffe. with a general cargo and 547 passengers. When within fifty miles of Havana on Monday and in the teeth of the hurricane the captain lost control of his ship and was driven hard upon Sombero Som-bero reef at 5 o'clock. The cutter found that those on board were not suffering and after taking on as many passengers as she could accommodate, sailed for Key Wost. Reports from Knights Key says the American schooner Edward T. Stotes-bury Stotes-bury Is a total loss on Pigeon Key. One man was washed overboard and drowned. The schooner was bound from Tampa to Baltimore with a. cargo of phospatc. The schooner Seratlns has boon towed Into port. The Spanish schooner Marta from Havana has been dismasted and abandoned. |