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Show STEAMER WITH ONE HUNDRED EXCURSIONISTS ABOARD STRIKES REEF OFF BERMUDA AND MAY BE TOTAL LOSS - - V- r " --(Jisj'Ei sr"' NO LOSS OF LIFE, SAY SHIP'S AGENTS. - . NEW YORK, Feb. 10. A. E. Outerbridge & Co., the local agents of the Quebec Steamship company, have received cable advices from Hamll- ton confirming the Associated Press report of the wreck of the Madiana. According to their advices the ship is a total loss, but no mention is made of any loss of life. 0(Si , HAJIILTQXBerjmiiila. Fj:hJjl.TT-Xhe Quebec Steamship company's steamer i Madiana, Capt. Frazer, which sailed from New York on Saturday, last for. a special cruise among the Caribbean islands isl-ands with a party of excursionists, has gone ashore on the reefs off this island and is likely to prove a total loss. Tugs have left here In endeavors to rescue the passengers. The Madiana is lying with a heavy list and broad side to the wind on the reef, one and a half miles northeast of North Rock. The seas are breaking over her. The tug Gladisfen only succeeded in getting within a-mile of the Madiana. Efforts are being made to transfer the latter's passengers to the Gladisfen by means of a life boat. A heavy sea is running. The steamer Madiana was built in Glasgow In 1876 and is 1983 tons net burden. bur-den. She is 344 feet 8 inches long, has 39 feet 4 inches beam and is 29 feet deep. 'ULLETIH'. " V HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb. 10. The passengers and crew of the Madiana Ma-diana have just landed. There was no loss of life. QUEENSTQWN. Feb. 10.-,The British Brit-ish bark Crown of Germany, from San Francisco for this port, arrived today and -landed thirty of the crew of the Belgian steamer Maskolyne, Captain Tanner, from New Orleans and Newport New-port News, for Antwerp. The steamer was abandoned in a sinking condition on January 30th. The Maskolyne had been quite unmanageable un-manageable since January 24th. All her fires were extinguished and water had flooded her stock holes and engine-room. engine-room. When the steamer was abandoned aban-doned she was so nearly full of water that she could not long remain afloat. A premium of 60 guineas for reinsurance reinsur-ance has been paids at Lloyd's. The steamer is owned by the Quebec Steamship cctmpany and halls from London. The Madiana has on board about 100 passengers. As this dispatch is sent one of the tugs seems to have been able to get alongside the Madiana. The weather is moderating, but some hours must elapse before it is possible to obtain from the passengers details of the disaster. A heavy sea is still running. The Madiana Madi-ana struck on the reef at 3 o'clock this morning. |
