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Show FIFTY MEN Storm Catches Ship Hard Aground on Virginia Sand Bank. WASHINGTON. March II. rifty men are In peril today aboard tha atranded Riitlah vessel Manchuria, e shore on tha Virginia coast, thirty miles south of Cane Henry. Tha 11 1 tie Island Ufa saving station has reported to the In I ted atatee life saving service her that furious northwest storm Is raging and the vesael is In danger of going to pieces. Keeper John W. Partridge of the Little Island station reported that he and hia men ere on the beach ofipnaUa the wrecked steamer and are doing everything every-thing possible to bring the men to shore safely. Lire aavera from the Imm Neck mills and the Kale Cape stations will s to the asalstam e of the Utile Island crew and aid In the rescue. , Th Manchuria salted from Newport News March bound for Tamplco, Mex- ; Ico, with a cargo of com I. The following dav aha atranded during thick weather. After a terrible night, during which a aevei storm 1hreatned to dnsh the vea-eel vea-eel to places, eight of her crew were rea-cited. rea-cited. The weather moderated and the wreckera went t" w.utit to save the ateamer. Iter cargo waa being Uihtenmt and the wieckna had aucv-ded in moving mov-ing the veeee) HH feet. In addition to her crew of thirty- there are i went v-five men from the wrevklng erewa abs-HLrd the veasel today. |