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Show Survivors of Shipwreck ! Battling for Life Amid Storm -Tossed Waters i . ALJFAX, Dec. 29. Five survivors, Hof the crew of the Belgian steamer ; Anton Van Driel were battling , desperately for life tonight on the ; wreck of thir ship, whi-!i whs fast , being rounded to pieces on the jagged , rocks whi.-h ffiinrrl the entrance ol bt. ; Marv's bav. Newfoundland. Tliolr only 1 hope was that the wreck, swept incessantly incessant-ly hv gigantic icv combers, would hold together "until a rescuing stramer from ril John's was able to reach thm. It was a slender hope, for the ill -fated ship had heen driven on the rocks at a spot where net vessel could approach in safety except in calmost weather-. All dav Ions ttw fisher folk from the nar-bv Villace of Si. Snotty had watchea the unequal strucgle fur hie Iron: Iiip tops of the r.iggd cliffs which frowned down upon tbs wrc.'k. They wore abso-lutelv abso-lutelv powerless to aid. The sreainr, laden with a cargo of poal fO'' the Dutch go eminent, cleared from Svdnv last Saturday under tae command of Captain Turnwcil. Swept out. of her course bv a terrific sea. she was hurled on St. Sho'.t's lcd.ccs shortly after 1 oVlock ihis morning, f-ioals were inline- . diatelv launched and promptly dashed to pieces against the cliffs by the mountafn- I ous waves. When morning broke the inhabitants in-habitants of the little fishing village saw five men clincing desperately to the bridge of the doomed su-amer. while wreckage and bodies were tossed about in the breakers break-ers at the foot or the cliffs. The steamer ordered from St. John's to attempt a rescue, cannot reach the scene of the wreck before tomorrow morning at the earliest. Reports received her late lodav from St. Shotts de-dared that there were" only slender chances of the ship holding together throughout the night. MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 2d. The schooner Je:tn L. Summerviile. reported adrift since 1'ecembor J s with her captain. W. K. Om ni, dead, and no one on board capable of navis;:t:ng her. has been located thirty miles west of l'rnsacola bar, .1. ". Sum-mcrviljo. Sum-mcrviljo. Urn owiifi-, was notified today bv wireless. oasiguard cutters Tallapoosa and Tus'arora went out several davr, ;igo in search of the p-hconer. The message received re-ceived today was from an unidentified ves?ei, which reported she was standing by the Summerviile. f- |