Show WOMf AND A O CHllORfN CASTAWAYS OR ISlANU I Passengers and Crew of the British Steamer Aeon Are Shipwrecked In Southern Waters i I I Victoria B CCablo advices from I Fanning Island state that the steamer I Aeon which left San Francisco July C for Auckland via Apia and was considered con-sidered overdue was carried on Christmas Island by tho strong currents cur-rents setting In shore and became n total wreck Tho ships company fifty In all took to tho boats and landed land-ed at a small settlement all safe There are four women and two children chil-dren mostly wives of officers of tho United States battleship squadron who took passage to Join their husbands hus-bands In Australia All are camping on Christmas Island awaiting rescue The Aeon Is fast on tho coral Island partly full of water nnd wrecked beyond but tho 5000 yond hope of salvage be bags recovered of mall aboard were believed to II |