Show COLLISION OF TWO STIA one goes down and persons including captain are drowned the vessel wh ch eh escaped serious in jury drifted avav without offer ing ng ass stance to the mccu pants of the steamer she had sunk cardiff the british steamer hell collided saturday at midnight with the british steamer orlanda out ward bound from penarth benarth the orlanda sank and fourteen per cons including her captain were drowned the night was clear but there was a gale blowing and a heavy sea running the orlanda which was coal laden tor for espezzia nas struck between the en gine room and the stoke hole and was so badly damaged that she began im med mediately lately to fill and heeled over sink ing in halt half an hour the Helio polls drifted away without rendering any assistance the captain mustered all the orl andas nineteen men on deck each was given a lif ebelt and jumped into the sea six of them reached a water logged lifeboat the only boat it wag was possible to launch the other having been smashed at the time of the col elision and all of them with the ex caption of one who died from echaus tion were rescued by a pilot boat boats after suffering greatly flom exposure the Helio polls had been chartered to convey 2000 2 spanish emigrants to honolulu in a letter to lloyd a shipping gazette the ship brokers said they had arranged the charter in behalf of the american government but it was stated elsewhere that the span lards had been engaged by hawaiian sugar interests to replace japanese laborers the was at bar ry wales saturday and was to proceed thence to malaga tor for the imal grants the orlanda was built in 1879 1979 at liverpool she was of 1500 1 tons dl placement and belonged to the 0 on steamship company of liver pool |