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Show iCE CAUSED THEltXK Captain of a Ship -Ex- plains the Sinking of the Bruce Loulsburg, C. B., March 27. JJanks of lco formed high on the shore, which looked to bo floating Icebergs, were the cause of tbo loss of the Reid Newfoundland company's steamer Bruce, on a submerged rock at Port Nola, near Sacatri laBt Thursday morning, according to atetatement Just Issued, by Captain JRlchard Boake of that vessel. He saidi - "After leaving Foil Au Basque, we steamed through the ice for sixteen honiwmak'lng open Water at 2 o'clock on Friday morning, 't was at the wheel. After runninga short time, I saw what I supposed iwas Ice. I at once reduced the epoqq and starboarded starboard-ed the wheel td go around the ice. "Almost immediate);? the rshlp ran aground and it was then that I 'discovered 'discov-ered that what I topkr,to be floating Ice w.tB a barricade vof,itco piled high on tho shore. UnserJpj,naB. to the damage to the shlp..apdthe depuv of water alongside the reef, I at once ordered the officers and crew to launch tho boats and mako, ready to save the passengers. Tne boats were launched as ."speedily as possible and the women and children taken ashore first " Captain Boake and First Officer Taylor assert that they had difficulty in "getting the passengers to assist them in launching the boats, but that every member of the crew acted with coolness and bravery. The boats had to row a mile beford'they could make a landing of the passengers. Two of the crew lost their lives. rtn |