OCR Text |
Show I ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY i LOST III STEAMER WRECK Mali Boat Weathers Severe Hurricane, i Then Misses Channel and Goes to Pieces In Sight of Land. London. Tho worst disaster for many yonrs In tho history of tho busy cross-channel traffic between England and tho continent occurred during a ' -violent tfilo shortly heforo C o'clock Thursday morning, when tho Hotter-dam Hotter-dam mall steamer Berlin, from Harwich Har-wich to Hook of Holnml, having satisfactorily sat-isfactorily weathered tho hurrlcnno, was wrecked ns sho was entering port Altogether 143 persona aro i known to havo perished. . Tho terrific seas broke- up tho i steamer with such awful suddenness I- i that nil attempts to save llfo nppear '' to havo boon utterly hopeless, i ! A few of tho survivors clung to tho if "wreck while tho llfo boat crows made ' j heroic efforts to reach them, but In f vain, and ono by ono they dropped off Into tho wntcr and wcro drowned. |