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Show MANY LIVES LOST IN STEAMER COLLISION NEW YORK. July Is. A dispatch from Port IJmon, Costa Rica, to the Times reports re-ports that thirty-two passengers and several sev-eral members of the crew of the steamer Irma were drowned or crushed to death when the vessel was sunk In s collision during a storm In the estuary of Ban Juan river. The colliding steamer Is given as the Dlamente and the news Is said to have reached Port Union from Blue-flelds. Blue-flelds. Most of the passengers of the Irma were below when the. collision occurred, because of the heavv weather, and to this fact, the dispatch says. Is due the heavy loss o life. The Dlamente waa damaged, but kept afloat. |