| Show t J Wireless S Tells of Disaster 1 TROOPSHIP REPORTED REPORT SUNK OFF NORWEGIAN COAST CAST W Wireless Report From ors Which I If f. f It Proves True Will Be e Recorded as as Greatest t Marine Disaster in n History I I i i ARCHANGEL two Oct Oct c 1 Two Tw tho thousand sap lives have av bec been lost inthe oa British is s ship g oit i their l o S fan co coast st cording according a to r t fram r Hels e 1 fa s. s LONDON O Oct t. t 11 Neither ri ith the i i d mir Y 1 to f I ds' ds I have c i received any information relative to the wre of a ship on onI I I the Norwegian coast At these sources the report is dis discredited r J If IC the loss of oC life liCe in the wreck reported in th the foregoing dispatch Is an as large as indicated the disaster will mark n a new record in the annals of the sea It would seem probable the ship which was Tt wrecked was a a. military i transport bringing British soldiers from Crom Archangel from Crom which port Great I Britain has been embarking large numbers of oC men during the last month I I It is known kno that troopships have sailed quite recently from Crom Archangel Copenhagen advices received yesterday stating tating that soldiers who I have been on the Archangel front have just landed at Riga and have been I rushed to the front south of that city to m meet et the onslaughts of German Gennan and andI Russian forces I j I The rhe largest recorded ed loss of oC life lICe in a marine disaster occurred when the tho thoi i Titanic was sunk after aCter colliding with an i iceberg eberg south of Newfoundland on April 14 14 1912 the list of oC deaths showing 1603 1503 names The Lusitania sunk I by a German submarine May 7 7 InS 1015 carried with her more than 1200 of ot otI I 1 j he her passengers and crew When the Empress of Ireland was was sent to the th I bottom in the Gulf Cult of St St. Lawrence Laurence on May lay 30 1914 1014 the loss of life liCe was 1027 j One thousand died when the Japanese e steamer Kicker Maru Iaru sank bank in Aus- Aus i I waters on September 28 1912 |
