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Show VESSEL STRUCK REEF. arltlsh Ship Lost and Twenty of Crew Drowned. Lnunceton, Tasmania. Tho BrltlBh ship 1joci Flnlas, rrom Port Plrle, South Australia, for Callao, was wrecked off Foster Island at daylight Sunday morning, nnd twenty of tho crew of twenty-four wero drowned. Four men were picked up by a pass Ing steamer. Foster Island 113 a short dlstanco off tho northeast coast or Tasmania, nnd Is surrounded by dntuerous shoals. Early Sunday the residents or the Island observed n large ship In ills tress. A gale, accompanied by a high sea, was blowing, nnd tho vessel soon struck tho recL Tho crew could bo Eeen trying to lower tho boats, when suddenly the ship sank. To attempt a rescue or the ship wns Impossible I on account or the heavy seas, but a ( steamer In tho distance had sighted !thu wreck and mado nil speed to where the ship had gono down. Only four men wero found. They wero clinging to nn upturned boat. |