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Show ORE HUNDRED- AND TEN PEOPLE PERISR IN WRECK Ship Star of Bengal Caught In Storm, Torn From Hold of Protecting Tugs, and Destroyed. Wrnngel, Alaska. Ono hundred nnd ten out pf n totnl of 137 persons aboard tho cannery ship Star of Hen-gal Hen-gal wero drowned when tho vessel was torn from tho hold of protecting tugs and dashed ashore at Helm Point, ut tho southeast end of Coronation Coro-nation Islnnd. Tho terrlblo tragedy occurred on September 11, nnd tlio nows wns brought by tho tug Hattlo Gago, Cnptnln Farrcr, which carried tlio survivors, twenty-seven In nil. Tho survivors beforo leaving Coronation Island burled tho bodies of fifteen white mon on tho beach. Captain Wagner of tho bark Star of Dengal, which was wrecked on Coronation Coro-nation island with a loss of 110 lives, was unconscious for nn hour nfter ho was rescued. Ho charges tho cnptnlns of tho tugs Kynk nnd Hnttlo Gage, who cut looso from him, with rank cowardice. Unnblo to spenk nbovo a whisper, Cnptnln Wngner wrote tho following: "When the tugs cut tho tow line wo were lying In ten fathoms of water, and for four hours hoped for help from tho tugs. Wo burned bluo lights, but tho tugs would not como In. Had tfioy dono so, over' man aboard could havo been saved. I will send both tug captains to tho penitentiary If possible for their cowardice." The survivors of tho wredk number twenty-seven. The ship broke In three pieces nnd Is a complete loss. |