Show v- v DROWN WHEN HEN SH IP GOES DOWN OON 41 S. S JAPANESE STEAMER GOES TO TOS S BOTTOM DURING NIGHT V WITH HEAVY LOSS Cause of Disaster off Main Island Unknown May Have Been Due to Crash With Another Boat N S Tokio One Tok One hundred and anti sixty persons were di owned drowned in the S wreck of the steamship Maru Marul l of off or Cape northwest of Hokkaido Hokkaido Hok Hok- kaido caido at 1045 o'clock the night of July says says' a dispatch to the F Asahi a leading Tokio Toldo newspaper S The Maru nominally is a aV V freight steamship but was carrying a n number of passengers She is op- op V crated by the North Japan Steamship Steamship Steamship Steam Steam- ship company between the island of of and Hokkaido northernmost northernmost northernmost northern northern- I most of the main Japanese islands She was bound for Otaru at the time of the wreck She is a vessel of t i 1240 tons The Asahi's dispatch came from f. f a town on The Thet ship bip carried passengers and fifI I- I ty-four ty members of the crew Eighteen Eighteen Eighteen t teen passengers and five members of the crew survived reaching To ohara 1 in lifeboats The cause use of the wreck is obscure The Asahi's patch dispatch says it resulted I from a collision with the time Maru a vessel belonging to the Kishimoto Kish- Kish imoto Steamship company of Osaka but advices to the Nichi Nichi another another another an an- other leading paper declare it was VS r. due to striking rocks This dispatch I f came from Otaru All aboard the V ship were Japanese r rV The disaster was the second serious serit seriS seri seri- t S ous one in Japanese marine annals I within the month the steamer Mat- Mat Maru Marti having floundered between between between be be- tween Formosa and the southern end 5 of the Japanese island system on July 11 with loss of all but one of the fifty-eight fifty persons aboard She also was a freight vessel |