Show 1 DROWN DRON A AI AS ASI I I JAPANESE SHIP sHir IN NIGHT Cause of Disaster Off Of f Main Islands Unknown May Have Been Due to Crash With Another Boat TOKIO July 28 By Isy A A. P One P.-One One Onehundred hundred and sixty-nine sixty persons were drowned In the wreck of the steamship Tairel Maru l off Cape northeast of or Hokkaido at 10 1045 45 o o'clock clock last ast night says n. n a dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis- dis patch to the Asahl Asahi a leading Tokio newspaper The Maru laru nominally Is a a freight steamship but was carrying a number number- of passengers She Is operated by the North Japan Steamship company between the Island of ot and Hokkaido northernmost of ot the main Japanese Islands She was bound for Otaru at the time of the wreck She Is a vessel of 1240 tons The Asahi's Asahl's dispatch came caine from a town on The ship carried passengers and four fifty members of the crew Eighteen passengers and five f members members members mem mem- bers of the crew survived reaching in lifeboats The cause of the wreck is ob obscure ob- ob The Asahi's Asahl s dispatch says It resulted from a collision with the Maru a vessel belonging to the Kishimoto Steamship company company com corn pany of Osaka but advices to the Nichi Nichi another paper declare it was due to striking rocks This dispatch came from Otaru All AU aboard the ship were Japanese The disaster was the second serious serious serious seri seri- ous one in Japanese mil marine annals w withIn the month th thy thu steamer Mat- Mat Maru having floundered between Formosa and the southern end of the Japanese Island system on July 11 with loss los of f all but on one of the fifty-eight fifty persons aboard She al also C was a freight vessel |