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Show A WATERY GHAYE? .',i .tt z . - ; Tue bpitibh Steamer Kar Sank by a Schooner Uhtn Iban'l rr Ilivani. ,',' OSS Or AT LAT E10HTV tWEs. .4 AffVl J'JtKe', i'clbrr the Cutlision: the .Sta(Wnll of a.Snf: it t TJHT. DISASTROUS FLOODS PREVAIL IN MEXICO. Extrfes'-W. cteitlan-1 laUFflcTjo1 in iUgaFd io the iviilical hllliatton: - ' H Tc:rtph 19 the Mws.1 i.ic'iity Di:ovi.M:n. Trie MionMi "Iranier "llreaja" Itun nnnu till lUmriat. Ni:w VolUc, Oct 31. The Sieii-Uh Sieii-Uh stWi'WHp J-t.u3 was Wn into off llarnegdi by an llnkllown schooner yesthnlay. Uotli vessels were sunk. Tjie clilef.eiUcer, sec; ondofllcer', surgeon, ohc engineer and e'glit f Ui5 ew tit UJo steamer were picked up. So faras is known these are tlie only persons out of the crew and passenger lit of eighty-six eighty-six of the ixaja aud crew ot the unkuown schooner that have ben saved. It is feared that all the others were lost and that the list will nunit-er up to eighty, if not Hie dttalls ate Jtleagrc The tu-.-at: left "cw lork yesterday afteruootl for Havana, Vflth nine regular iAfc:i!(iers Alid a cieW of eventy-seveiu It is thought there were some others oil board not on thelM. At hair-past eight Thursday Thurs-day uiaruiug a largo rouMiisted Kjiooticr bove iu sight aud immediately imme-diately bjre down ou the steamer, striking on the starboard bunkers, carryingaway the bridge and cabin. The captain was Instantly killed. Seveumlnute Iattr both versels had nink.andthepisssngers aud crews were struggling iu the water. Tlie ileamerwas a staunch vessel, aud Captain Cuulll was oue or the most irut.tn! eninloves of the line. Oue of tue passengers not ou the regukir list wasJuan t'edro,a Cubau millionaire, aud director in the steamship line. Among the other passengers on board were: M. A. Calvo. wife, sou and maid; Mr. I'urr aud three children, A. llult, Jose A. Cabs. Ita'nlou Alvanr, Juau K. Hedman, Oscar Islaur, Luigi IVllion, Jose Garcln. Sfl'iJMJS ! Sa' 3 at the time of the collision he was In tlio cabiu talking to Mrs. Calvo. suddenly there came au aw ml shock aud the steamer rolled well over on her port side. Everybody iu the cabin w as thrown dowu, and immediately a sceueof the wildest confusion j-nued. "Mrs. Calvo begged me to save rier sou. and 1 went upon the deCjJ Jt find him. There a terrible scene mil my eyes. Tht. bridge, deck-rtou-e and forerigglug were ail torn away. There vas a great tpsn in the starboard side JUsl above the coal bunkers, aud through this the water was rushing. Close by on the starboard beam was a big roremaited hooner, with her bows split ami fon-:iggiug gone and busstove in. Meu weSr luunlng wildly on lie decks, shouting all kinds of irders, and I can remember seeing tiie crew of the schooucr doing something on their vecl. The next tblujr I kf-w Itc was wah!n;berourUecks. iui i wild Idea of savin? ourselves, wveralof us clambered up into the oort rigging. Djwu went the steamer and up wo cIliL'ln'-. reachedthcfsripniistandjustlhen Oie huil reached bottom. This left c but above the Surface of the -ater, but each Sireli dashed over ourlImb. There were twelve sur vivnrs there. , "Some of pur crcrr tried to reach the sclifBIler, but silo weut down al most at soon as our Ves-tl, and, as far as w c cqt'U !. l'" a5 "ol, il in siguL. One of the men In Uio yards, wliile dimbins. "iJ ,lt had seen a baat LOWKItnD KBOM TIIKSTIIilOXint md seven meu get in and row away, hut we could not sec anything or it, titliough it was a bright moonlight night Then, in the hope of nttract-icg nttract-icg attention, wc cut the Urred ropes on lh! yard-, and, lighting them, swung them In the air, but In "'AittWagu the JoUg night we dung to that yard, tJTDwiiH: co dcr and stlffcr each hbur. .TuwA da-break da-break one or tfie Sen Uioilght he heard A lining steamer, and we all halloed as loud as we could, inen a lioaf made its appearance, and we were taken ou board the 7iiihW. We could not have Uted much Ae collision is Inexplicabjj in view or the statement of Dr. I.ico, that the night was a bright moon-Hiht moon-Hiht oue and the sja smoh. A dIivatclifroml,ewts.De!A;Vare, tonight, say'a the tug Vfertu 'Mar rived this cveulngantl reports that the schooner was the Curncliut liar-grave. liar-grave. Ten men irom the Har antra and seven finm the low.'a were picked up by the schooner Surah U IMtvi and transferred to the llcrcu'c. The latter proceeded for the wreck to rentier assistance, out at midnight met the tug Uuiler, which had been to tt'e scene, and fouud beUi rebels sddk and all hands goue. lliey picked up the bod v of a womau. The survivors re port that nearly a hundred Jwople Wire clinging to the wreck atone time. The schooner llurpravt cleared from Lewes Oct. 27, with coal for Kail lliver, Mats. limit Ilowe'a rnneral. WasiHSOTOS. Oct. 31. Tlie fu neral or Hugh Walle Howe, who married General llulterworlh's daughter Wednesday and died Thursday, was soiemnU"d today. The service was attended by Illalue, eome members or the diplomatic corns, and other promiueni ticoiuc. TiieboilywasUten taken to ew York Tor interment la oodlawn cemetery. nn the BrlnU. New Vokk, Oct. SI. "Tony" Hart, noted ns a popular and successful suc-cessful comedian. Is lingering between be-tween lile and death In the insane asylum at Worcester, A!as. The oncujovlal and rollicking actor.who has made millions Uugh at hb mimicry, Iitlk3 aud drollery, 1 lying helpless on a narrow couch and neanng the saddest or fates-death fates-death from tresis in an insane asvlum. Early yesterday morning life was almost at an end. In fact, hU deaUt was 1 'r weeks ago, but his devoted attend-rnU attend-rnU manage by constant watching Hi nursing to keep P$ life within his helpless and emaciated emaci-ated frame. |