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Show collision or 'TWOSTEAHERS One Goes Down and Fourteen Persons. Including Captain, are Drowned. The Vessel Which Escaped Serious In-Jury In-Jury Drifted Avav Without Offer-Ing Offer-Ing Assistance to the Occupants Occu-pants of the Steamer She Had Sunk, Cardiff. Tho British steamer Hell-opolls Hell-opolls collided Saturday at midnight with tho British stonnior Orlnndn, outward out-ward bound from Pennrth. Tho Orlnndn sank and rourtcen por-cons, por-cons, Including her captnln, wero drowned. Tho night was clear, but thoro was a galo blowing and n heavy sea running. Tho Orlnndn, which wns coal-laden for Spozzla, was struck botween tho en-glno en-glno room nnd tho stoke holo and was so bndly damaged that sho began Immediately Im-mediately to fill and heeled over, sinking sink-ing in half nn hour. Tho Hollopolis drirted away without rendering any assistance Tho captain mustered all tho Orl-anda's Orl-anda's nlnotccn mon on deck. Each waB given n life-belt nnd Jumped Into tho sea. Six of them reached a water logged llfoboat, tho only hont it was possible to launch, tho other having boon smashed at tho time of tho collision, col-lision, and all of them, with tho exception ex-ception of ono who died from oxhaus tlon, were rescued by a pilot boat, aftor suffering greatly from cxposuro. Tho HellopollB had been chartered to convey 2,000 Spanish emigrants to Honolulu. In a letter to Lloyd's Shipping Ship-ping Gnzetto tho ship brokors said thoy had arranged tho charter In bo-half bo-half or tho American government, but It was stated elsewhere that tho Spaniards Span-iards had been engaged by Hawaiian sugar Interests to replace Jnpaneso laborers. Tho Hollopolis was at Barry, Bar-ry, Wales, Saturday and was to proceed pro-ceed thonce to Malaga for the Immigrants. Immi-grants. Tho Orlanda was built In 1S79 at Liverpool. Sho was of 1,500 tons displacement dis-placement and belonged to tho Oriental Ori-ental Steamship company of Liverpool. |