Show WORLDS GREATEST MARINE DISASTER MORE MOKE THAN THREE THOUSAND LIVES LOST WHEN FRENCH CRUISER IS SUNK out of four thousand men oh on board only were saved ac corbing to latest estimates of french ministry paris it was vas announced at tile french ministry of marine on friday that there were nearly nien men on board the french auxiliary cruiser provence when hen she was sunk in ili tho the mediterranean on february 26 it was stated that on board tile the provence were the staff ot of the third colonial infantry regiment tho the third battalion the second company of the first battalion tile the second machine gun company and one extra company in all nearly men As the ministry of marine on fel feb auary 29 announced that tho the number of survivors of the Pro provenza venea d disaster at was estimated estimate dat at it Is in indicated by the foregoing dispatch that up wards warda of lives were dost the loss of more than lives ira in the sinking of the french auxiliary cruiser provence Is the greatest ocean disaster of modern times up to tile the present the largest number of lives ever lost in one wreck was ft as when the white star liner titanic struck an iceberg off the banks on april 14 1912 and sank with a death of 1695 the rescued numbered n tile the cunard line steamship lusitania which was torpedoed by a german submarine and sunk oft off the head of kinsale ireland on may alay 7 1915 1015 with the loss of 1206 lives the burning of the excursion steam ship general slocum in the east river new york juno june 15 1904 when nearly 1000 persons met their death the french line steamship la dour goyne sunk in collision with tile the steamship july 4 with the loss of lives |