Show MANY CHINESE DROWNED steamer sinks and fifty five chinese lose their lives victoria D C the steamer met mel too of at the china merchant company foundered april 25 off edgar island eighty miles from Vu sung the port of shanghai and fifty five persons passengers and crew all chinese were drowns brownel drow nel J according to news received by the steamer IvIon monteagle teagle which arrived from the orient friday Irl day the was in collision with the steamer of the same line and foundered five minutes after the ships struck the guarill lowered her boats and rescued many of the passengers all the europeans being saved the loss of the occurred the same day that the pacific mall liner asia went on the rocks miles south oc at shanghai |