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Show IB FRENCH VESSEL STRIKES ROCKS i 8teamer Wrecked on Coast of Uruguay ' With Heavy Loss of Life, j Montevideo, Uruguay. Tho French , transport maritime steamer Poltott, I from Marseilles, April C, for this port, has been wrecked off San Joso j Ignaclo, on tho coast of Uruguay. Sho ; is understood to have had 300 passen gers on board, and, according to lato reports, nearly 200 of theso hnvo been rescued and aro on their to this city. i Tho vessel and her cargo will probab ly prove a total loss. Tho casualty ; list has been reported at 100, but this , has not been corroborated. The gov- J eminent Is doing everything possible 1 to succor tho shipwrecked people. ! San Jobo Ignaclo Is n small rocky promontory surrounded by reefs, twonty-ono miles west of Capo St. Maria, on tho Bouthwestom coast of Uruguay, and about 150 miles from 1 Montevideo. |