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Show Tie STEMS '--'.;.. ,' - : SomePassengers frozen on the Larcli-- Larcli-- hionfs.DecIis, Others freeze in Try-pi Try-pi Reach Land and Still Others : Drown in Icy Waters. ;- iFrom 130 to 180 persons are dead as the result of a collision between the steamer -Larchmont and the Harry Knowleton off Block Island, R. L, last night. Most of those who perished were passengers or members of the crew of the Larchmont, though the other vessel also sank. Many person's were frozen to death, either on the deck or when attempting to reach land through the icr waters. - A large number of others were drowned. Officials of the ship lines have not yet received detailed de-tailed reports of the disaster, and the cause is unknown. work, though many of them live several miles from the point off which the steamer sank. The northwest gale continued, with zero temperature, throughout the forenoon. fore-noon. At 11:30 o'clock four more bodies were washed ashore, making a total of eighteen bodies recovered, with eight survivors of the accident being cared for upon the island. BLOCK ISLAFD, E. L, FEB. 12. - ONLY NINETEEN OUT OF AN ESTIMATED ES-TIMATED TOT AX Or FROM 150 TO 200 PERSONS SUEVTVED THE SINKING SINK-ING OP THE JOY LINE STEAMER iAscHMONTT LAST NIGHT, AO-C AO-C )DINO TO AN ESTIMATE MADE A" 2 P. M. TODAY. OF THOSE SAVED, EIGHT WERE PASSENGERS, PASSEN-GERS, RTT MEN AND TWO WOMEN. AND THE BEST WERE MMBBS OF THE CREW, INCLUDING CAPT. M'-VEY. M'-VEY. THE LARCHMONT, WHICH WAS BOUND FROM PROVIDENCE TO NEW YORK, WENT DOWN AF-. AF-. TER . COLLIDING WITH THE . SCHOONER HARRY KNOWLTON. THE SURVIVORS REACHED THIS ISLAND IN SMALL BOATS. 1 BLOCK ISLAND, R.' L, FEB. 12. V THE STEAMER LARCHMONT OF I THE JOY LINE, WITH MANY PAS-I.SiacGERS PAS-I.SiacGERS ONs BOAJSJV-.-EOCND-. TROM S08TON 'FOB NEW YORK, SANK OFF THE NORTHWEST SIDE : OF BLOCK ISLAND EABXY TODAY, ' AFTER HAVING COLLIDED WITH THE THREE-MASTED SCHOONER HARRY KNOWLETON. THE PASSENGERS PAS-SENGERS AND CREW FROM THE STEAMER TOOK TO THE BOAT8, ; BUT IT IS FEARED THAT MANY IX) 8T THEIR LIVES, EITHER BY BEING J3ROWNED OR FREEZING, AS THE. TEMPERATURE WAS BE LOW EKO. THE SCHOONER'S BOW WAS CUT AWAY AND HER CAPTAIN RAN HER ASHORE WEST OF QUONO CHONTAUO TO PREVENT HER ' SINKING. THE CREW OF SEVEN, INCLUDING CAPTAIN HALEY, , BEACHED SHORE SAFELY IN XHXTR OWN BOATS. Xhe cause of the collision is not " ln. The night was clear, but there ; J z strong northwest wind and the tttlras rough. It was intensely cold throughout the night. When the first boats came aahore from the steamer it was found that some of their occupants were dead. In the first confusion it was not known whether they had been pulled from the water after having been drowned, or whether they were first sent to death. Knowleton Full of Water. The Harry Knowlet-on. which hails from Eaatport. Me., was bound from South Am boy for Boston. She lies on a aandy bottom, but is full of water, and it is not known whether she can be floated. , . The Larehment left Providence last eight for New York in command of Capt. MeVer. The chief engineer was Robert Gay" of Bridgeport. Conn. She carried a crew of about fifty, and had on board mm passengers and a mis-' mis-' cellaneoua cargo of freight. . The Larchmont registered lrio.- tons gross 6he waa 252 feet in length. 37 ? feet breadth and 14 feet in depth. The Harrv Knowleton registered 277 tons Jet 8be was 128 feet in length. 3S feet in breadth, and 11 feet in depth. Death In Various Forms. ' 1 The passengers met their deaths in ; ; rations ways. Some of thera attempted to launch lifeboats and were frozen to . death on the decks of the floundering - Bteamer. Others were drowned In Jhe attempt to escape before the vessel .west down, and still others were frozen ... to death before the small craft reached shore. t Capt. McVey said he could not esti-' esti-' mate the exact loss of life at this time. 1 Hia steamer' left Providence late in the ' evening, and he had not had an oppor-'' oppor-'' tunity to examine the passenger list which had been handed to him just before be-fore he left. Providence. The captain's estimate f the number of those on ' bo"d agrsesv however, with the esti- nx t made by -the Joy line officials in ' Pit ienee, who said that the Larch-. moav carried about 150 passenger and a efew of thirty. -. V Many Aid la Belief. ' The inhabitants of all parts of the island .turned , out to assist in rescue , .. - - - - - - - ;Av;Vl.:. |