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Show BRITISH LINER SUNK BY MINE. More Than Forty Persons Drowned as Result of Accident. Dover. Tho steamship Maloja, a 12,431 ton vessol belonging to tho Pen-Insular Pen-Insular & Oriental line, struck a mlno and sank within a half hour two miles off Dover on Sunday. More than forty persons were drowned or killed as a result of tlio accident. Tho Maloja left Tilbury only Saturday Satur-day for Bombay with -malls, 119 passengers pas-sengers of all classes and a crew numbering num-bering nbout 200, most of them Lascars. Las-cars. Other passengers wero to Join tho ship at Marseilles. Tho steamer had just passed Admiralty Admir-alty pier at Dover and wns opposite Shakespeare cliff, when an explosion shook hor from end to end. Sho listed Immediately to port. High seas wero running and the captain, realizing that great damage Itad been done to tho nfter part of his vesol, tried to run her aground, but tho engine room wns swamped and tho ship becamo unmanageable. unman-ageable. Tho plight of tho vessel was observed ob-served and dozens of craft went at full speed to her rescue. Ono of them, tho British tanker Empress of Fort William, Wil-liam, of 2,181 tons, struck another mine nnd sunk nearby. Only ono of her crew was drowned. |