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Show NEARLY HUNDRED PERM CRASH -INER EGYPT 8INK8 IN COLLISON OFF FRENCH COAST; DISASTER DISAS-TER WORST SINCE WAR Somes Without Warning In Dense Fog; Trouble With Lascar Crew It Hlnter; No Amerlcnas Reported Re-ported Lost Paris In thick sea fog Saturday vonlng off tho coast of Flnlsterro the llritlsh ship Egypt of the Penlnsulnr t Orient I.Ino was rammed and sunk y tlio French cargo steamer Solno nnd' aeurly n hundred of the pnssengors ind crew nro bollovod to have been drowned. Tho accident Is ono of tho worst which has happened on tho French const since the war. Tho fog was general all along the French const In exceptional density for this time of year nnd the first nows of tho disaster disas-ter beenmo known Saturday, when it was reported from Cherbourg that "the llnor Berongarla on her first- trip from America with oil fuel could not make port and could not get Into wireless communication with hind, ns tho stations sta-tions wero all busy with callH for old of vessols in distress. KelUior the namo of tho vessel nor extciit of tho catastropo were, how- vor, learned until tho Solne reached Irest Sunday morning with about thir ty survivors from nmong the pnssengors pnssen-gors or tho Egypt and 200 of the crew. According to tho captain's statement, fifteen passengers, mostly iif British nationality, nro missing nnd about eighty of tho crew. The disaster, according to accounts of survivors, happened Just at the moment they were sitting down to dinner, nbout 7:30. For somo time previously they had been 'going dond slow on account of tho fog, nnd usual fog signal precautions had been taken. tak-en. The ship was nbout twenty-two miles from tho coast,, running south int) Uie Bay of Biscay when tho crash come. Until thoro was no possibility of iivo'dlnx colllson, It npopars the watch officers of both vessels wero unconscious of their proximity to each other. Tho Solno, steaming west on outward out-ward trip from Brest, struck the Euypt amidships. The bows of tho So'no wero badly damaged, but the 1 Egypt drew clear and for some minutes steamed on hor route. According to tho account of tho cnptnln of tho Solno ho tffrncd, In spite of tho damn.,, which ha:! boon suffered, to follow tho othor ship, and twenty minutes Inter picked hor up In the fog In n sinking condition. Tho mlst-lihinkotei? wator was dotted with boats and rafts to which torrlfled pavugors and crew were clinging. Afto.' having floated for somo tlmo tho ship begun to niiiko water and sink rapidly nnd at the end there wns little tlmo loft for tho launching of bouts. |