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Show 01 HUNOREDAND TEH ' PEOPLE PERISH ID WRECK Ship Star of Oengal Caught In Storm, Torn From Hold of Protecting Tugs, and Destroyed. Wrnngel, Alaskn. One hundred nni ten out of u total of 137 persons aboard tho cannery ship Star of Hen-gal Hen-gal were drowned when tho vessel was torn from tho hold of protecting .tugs anil ihislied ashorn nt Helm Point, at tho southeast end of Coronation Coro-nation Island. Tho terrible tragedy occurred on September 1 1, nnd tho news wns brought by tho tug Ilatllo (lage, Captain Fnrrer, which carried the survivors, twenty soveu In nil. Tho survivors before leaving Cnionntlon Island butled tho bodies of fifteen whllo men on tho bench. Captain Wngner of the bark Star of Hengal, which was wrecked on Coro-nation Coro-nation Island with a loss of 110 lives, was unconscious for an hour lifter ho wns rescued. Ho chaiges tho captains of thu tugs Kyak and Htittlo tinge, who cut loose from him, with rank cowardice. Unnhlu to speok above n whisper, Captain Wngner wrote the following: "When the tugs cut the tow line we were lying In ten fathoms or water, nnd for four bonis hoped for help from tho tugs. Wo but nod blue lights, hut tho tugs would not come In. Had tr.cy done so. every man aboard could linvo been saved. I will send both tug captains to tho penitentiary If possible for their cowardlre." Tho survivors of tho wreck number twenty-seven. Thu ship broko In three pieces and Is a complete loss. |