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Show AMERICAN SHIP SUNK. Is Rammed by French Cruiser, Sixty-six Sixty-six Lives Being Lost. An Atlantic Port. Sixty-six persons lost their lives when -the steamship City of Athens, bound from New York for Savannah, was rammed and sunk by a Freiicli cruiser off (he Delaware coast on May 1. The missing Include ten men and two women who wore passengers, seven out of twenty-four United States marines who were on board, fourteen out of twenty French sailors, and thirty-three members of the crew. All the passengers and many of the crew were in their berths when the bow of the warship plunged into the side of the 2300-ton coastwise vessel. Fire broke out almost immediately afterwards aft-erwards in hold No. 3, but it had no bearing on the fate of the ship, for the flames were quickly quenched by the rush of water which poured in. |