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Show MESSAGE FROM CREW OF ILL FATED HURONIAH Bottlo Washed Ashore In North of Ireland Brings Last Tidings of the Shipwrecked Sailors. London. There hns boon waBhoi on tho bench at Castlo Hock In the north of Ireland, a bottlo contnlnlng a message from sovernl members ot tho crow of tho ship Huronlnn, which disappeared In tho spring of 1902, to tho effect thnt sho wns sinking fast. Tho message, howovor, gives no location. lo-cation. This is tho Bccond tlmo tho Huronlan has been heard from slnco sho sailed from Glasgow on February 11, 1902, tor St Johns, N. S. Tho Huronlan belonged to tho Allan lino. Sho was first reported ovcrduo early in Mnrch, 1902, and when nothing noth-ing had been heard from her by tho first of April, nil hopo for hor wns given up. In splto of this, howovor, tho British ndmlrnlty, nt tho request of tho owners, ordered tho crulsor Tunnies to senrch for tho missing stenmor, and in tho latter part of April tho cruiser Hollow was ordered to tho nort's Atlantic to help tho Thames In this work. Tho search was kept up by thoso two crnlsors until well Into Mny, but no trnco of tho Huronlnn was ever found. A report from Montrcnl dated Juno 17, said that on .Tune 2 n bottlo wns picked up 45 miles enst of Halifax, contnlnlng contnln-lng the following noto, written on a"k scrap of paper: f "Steamer Huronlan turned over Sunday Sun-day night in Atlantic. In small boat, fourteen ot us." |