Show TIE HUNDRED LIVES ARE LOST Italian Steamship With 800 Souls on Board Wrecked Off Hormigas Island A Number of Fishermen Who Attempt to Rescue the TerrorStricken Pag sengers Are DrownedCaptain of IllFated Vessel Takes His Own Life Cartngenu SpnlnA terrible marine disaster occurred Saturday evening ofT Cape Paloe The Italian steamship Slrle from Genoa for Barcelona Cadiz Ca-diz Montevideo and Buenos Ayres with about 800 persons aboard was wrecked off Hormigas Island Threo hundred Immigrants most of them Italians and Spaniards were drowned Tho captain of the steamship committed com-mitted suicide The bishop of San Pedro Brazil also was lost and It Is reported that another an-other bishop Is among the missing Tho remainder of the passengers and the officers and crew got away In the ships boats or vroretroscued by means of boats sent to them from tho shore A number of fishermen who mado attempts at rescue were drowned Those rescued from tho vessel aro now at Capo Palos In a pitiable condition condi-tion being without food or clothing The Slrlo struck a rocky reef known as Bajos Hormigas and sank soon afterward aft-erward stern first Hormfgas Island lies about two and a halt miles to the eastward of Cape Palos The Slrlo was owned by the Narlga tloua Itallana of Genoa Before he committed suicide the captain declared the steamer had 646 passengers on board and that her crew numbered 127 men Tho Slrlo had 570 passengers when leaving Genoa but additional Spanish passengers were taken aboard at Barcelona where the vessel touched a few hours before the disaster |