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Show COLLIER ARRiVES n Will RESCUED MEN No Lives Lost When Knight of the Thistle Foundered at Sea. AN ATLANTTO PORT, lac. 15. The sixt v-four members of tit crp-.v of tlie British steamship Knight of tlm ThibUfc wftrei brnuiii hre late to-Jay by an A.mf-1'lcnii naval co!!U-r, which rcBCijed them shortly before if-v storm - ban creel Mteanier founders l on Morula, v. 2'V) miles Moutht-iiBi of C.ino r:j-.e. Twenty-three of tJie nit-u are Knslish ami the rest are Chinese. Tin- sLonmcr left an Atkintit; port November No-vember V for Kritflaivl. eiicounterii.'fr rough weather almost from i he outset. On Thanksgiving day h"-r ni'lrler was tmaiihfcd, making her unniana stable. On rjeremb-ir 7, while the ri cw was enKat,'ed In throwing out. a sra anchor to steady the ship, a mountainous w a ve crashed over the starboard side, dolus yreat damage and .severely injuring two Ch I n e se members of the crew. Lote that day the collier arrived, in answer to the S. O. S. calls, and srood by for two days. Twenty of the steamer's steam-er's crew were rescued by a. life raft, but were nearly drowned before they were . -nulled aboard the naval vescl. Others decided it was too hazardous to trv to leave and so remained on board the werok until December 10. when It became apparent ap-parent that the shin was going down. .Putting off in lifeboats, they reached the "oilier after a desperate stvucglc, just as their st earner punk, Hlern firm. The Knight of rhc Thistle was a Fteel vessel of t-'.f)75 tons frosts a rid was built at Glasgow In Knj;;. |