Show MANY DROWN I WHEN HEN SHIP SHIP- GOES DOWN The Th Oti Oriental Liner Oceana SinKs in English Channel After Collision A FOUR PASSENGERS AND SOME SAILORS PERISH Co Colliding l d rig Vessel Vess l Crippled Oceana Carried in Bullion NEW V HA HAVEN VEN Eg March 16 Pour Four Four passengers and several sailors are te be be- cd to have boon drowned this morn mom Ing lug as a result or of z a collision between the Peninsular Oriental liner Oceana and the German b bark rk ot off Beachy head in iu the English channel The Oceana had on board O Oin in bullion The Pisagua later reached Dover in iii ina a a. sinking condition Several tu in attendance For some soma time ilme the lives of tho the liners linera one forty passengers and of the I men of her crew were placed d in in- indan da dan dan- ger The courage of or th the officers and the speedy arrival of ot assistance however how how- ever over prevented a terrible catastrophe e. e T Twenty eight ht of ot the pa passengers sen era were werf landed here her and nine nino at East Bourne in small email boats but it is feared leared that the tbt theother tb other four have been drowned together with some members of the Lascar crew crow by tho the capsizing of a a. boat which was transferring thorn thom to a ero cross channel boat standing by bi Tho The Oceana was from front London to Bomba Bombay She wn was proceeding down the English channel when the tho bark smashed into her ber broadside on and tore the side sid out of or tho the tt steamer am r Crew Panic Stricken Tho ho passengers a and the steamers steamer's officers of of- be behaved edwith a with great groat roat t calmness but the tim crew crew composed of ot T Lascars was 13 p panic nic stricken and nd delayed the lowering lower lower- in jag ing of the boats Boats Boats' lowered from a J cross channel st steamer steamer- mer picked up a largo large number ol of- persons Lifeboats were sent out oot from short in reply to signals i of distress An attempt was first t made made- to beach the Ocana hut but she ho qui quickly kly Tho Thio collision occurred while the pas pas- o in their berths The water rushed rUlhe-d in 0 o quickly that the lower docks decks were awash in a few fe minutes and arid the passengers en trying t to t make make- their way to tIle the upper upper- decks cleek had bad to wade tade through h wat water r up to their waists The first b boat lowered Jon was swamped and nd the tho passengers were thrown into the theater water ater but were ere all picked up The second boat was just 8 sinking when a a. lifeboat from shore reached it The rhe Pisagua ua is said i to have ha pr proceeded on her oya voyage with nith mo most t of her ber headgear carried non non-a away The rhe Oceana was one of the tho oldest of the Peninsular Oriental liners and nd this was to have Havn been ll- ll last t o voyage a c Sh h he 5 had hail been running continuously con since |