| Show TOGAS FLAGSHIP GOES TO BOTTOM 1 Nearly 600 Lives Lost as Result ofSinkingof Japancse War Vessel I Doomed Vessel Took Fire I a Magazine Exploded Bio wingn Hole In Her J W Side When She Sunk Loss 1 Includes Men Who Went to Reccua Injured i iI Toklo The navy deportment announces i an-nounces that tho battleship Mlkasn has been destroyed by l lire and tho explosion explo-sion of her magazine causing tho loss of 60tl lives Including men of other ships who went to the rescue rite lire stnrtoil from an unknown cause at midnight on Sunday I night Sept 10 Before tho officers could bo rescued the fire reached the aft magazine maga-zine which exploded blowing a hole In tho port Hide of tho vessel below the wajor lino and causing the qhlp t < j sink An Investigation Is now being held to determine the cake of the fireThe The Mlkaba was the flagship of the Japanese navy flying the flag of Vice Admiral Togo tho conmatdor In chief but Admiral Togo was not on board when tho disaster occurred She was present nt nil the principal engagements engage-ments during tho war and was on several sev-eral occasions reported saverely damaged dam-aged In action At the battle of the Sea of Japan she led tho Hoot Into action ac-tion and her nnmo was mentloried In connection with Bonie of the most stirring stir-ring events of this famous sea fight ThO MlhaSft was one of the largest and most powerful vessels In the Tup anese navy She was built at Barrow England and wan launcheJ In 1902 Sho nand a displacement of t5200 tons n-and her speed was 185 knots wHit 10131 Indicated horso power Her armament consisted of four twelve Inch fourteen sixInch twenty twelve inch fourteen sixInch twenty twelve pounders night three poundes four two and onehalf pounders and eight millimeter guns In tho battle of tho Sen of Japan the AIlknBu wan tho heaviest loser of tho Japanese ships having sixtythree killed and wounded She approached nearer battlcBnin to the Russians than v any othn Tho Mikasa was also time flagship of Admiral Togo In the great norm battle fought off Port Arthur on August Aug-ust 10 1101 on which occasion the Japanese flagship also suffered the most but continued In tho fighting line On that occasion the Mlliiisa had four officers and gtweutynlnQ men killed six offlqerfl and twentynine men severely wounded Und fourofllcerH anil twentynine men slightly wounded |
