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Show COLLISION BF i -, TI STEMS i ' ' VjO-ne Goes Down and Fourteen Persons, Including Captain, I are Drowned. The Veel Which Escaped 8ej;lous In- y. - JUr Dr,!ted Awv Without Offer- '" "' i '"a .AliUnce to the Occu-f Occu-f t ' K pants of the Steamer She , Hart Sunk. Gnrdlff.-fTlio ittltlsli stuitiner Moll opollH collided S.Utudio' at midnight with tho III Utah stomuor OilandH, out ward bound fiom I'uiihi tlf The QlRiidH sank mid fouitcun pr coiiM, Including hur captain, -ere drowned. Jl Tho nlKtit wan clear, but theru was . Kiilo IiIowIiib and u heavy Hea iiiiiiiIiik ft Tho Orlanda, which was co.il laden for jB Spczzla, was "Bttiick between tho en i . bIho n)oin and tho stoko hole, and i fi ho hadlv (IhiiiiikviI that Hhe btK'n Im- S mediately to 111! and hcolcd ovei, Hlnk ln? In half an hour. I , Tho llollopolls diirted away without H rendering nny aHHlHtauce. Tho captain muutficd all the Oil fi anila'a nluuteoii men on deck. K.icli R was Riven a life-belt and Jumped Into B ' -" tbo ea. Six of them rcuchivln watei- I loRsed lifeboat, tho only boat It was nosulblo to launch, the other lm-liu I boon Hinnshcd at the time of the col ' llslon, and all of them, with the ex ceptlon of ons who died from exhaim lion, wetu rescued by a pilot boat, ! utter siirtoiliiR Rreatlv fiom exposure Tho llollopolls had been chartered to convey 2,000 Spanifih emigrants to Honolulu In a letter to Uojd's Ship pln Gazette the ship biokrs mM they had anauged the charter In be half of tho American government, but It R3 stated elie-ihprp that the Span lards had been engaged b: Hawaiian sugar interests to replace Japaues labours. The Itellopolls was at Bar ly, Wales, Saturdaj and nhs to pio - cccd thence to Malaga for the Iniml Brants. - The Orlanda was built In 187!) al Liverpool. She wbs of 1,500 tons ills placement mid bulonacrt to the Oil ' ontal Stoatushfp company - ot Liver I l pool. |