Show SHIP GOES DOWN it IR STORM t IL STEAMER MER LOST THIRTY MILE FROM HALIFAX the chief officer and eighteen mem bers of the crew saved while captain and passengers are lost during a raging and blinding snow storta storm whick swept the nova scotia coast for twenty four hours the ocean steamer damara of the furnessia line ran on the rocks at musquodoboit thirty miles east of halifax and Is be bof ildved to have foundered with the loss of many lives the first officer of the ship with eighteen of the crew escaped in one of the lifeboats and landed at plessant sant point after a terrific struggle with wind and sea captain gorst master of the damara tour four passengers and the rest of the crew left eft the vessel in another lifeboat they have hae not been heard of since and it is feared that they have perished the occupant occupants of the boat which reached shore were ut terly exhausted and many of them were badly frostbitten they had a harrowing experience battling in the darkness for hours in the open boat with tempestuous tempestuous seas on a ous coast with the thermometer 10 de grees below zero and an arctic bliz zard raging they landed on shore somer time during the day and reached the telegraph office at musquodoboit harbor at night whence they wired the first news of the disaster to the agents of the furnessia line at hal tax fax to which point the damara dimara was bound |