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Show STEAMER ,.' I LOSTAT SEA I Goes Down While Pas- H sengers Are in Night M Clothes Now Haven, England, March IS. Four passengers and several sailors H arc believed to have beon drowned. H this morning as a result of a colli- H slon between the Peninsular and Orl- ontal liner Oceana and the German? bark Pisagua, off Beachy Head, In the English channel. The Oceana had on board $5,000,000 In bullion. IH For some tlmo tho lives of tho Hn-. er's forty-one passengers and of tho H 280 men of her crow woro placed In' danger. The courage of the officers and the speedy arrival of assistance, H however, preventod a terrible oatas- M tropho. Twenty-eight of the pasaen- M gers were landed here and nine itt M Eastbourne in small bonts-, hut it is M feared that the other four havo been drowned, together with some members. of the Lascar crow, by the capsizing M of a boat which was transferring them. to a cross-channel steamer standta? 1 The Oceana was bound from Lon- don for Bombay. She was proceeding H down the English channel when tho l bark smashed into her 'broadside-on and practically tore the side out of. the steamer. H The passengers and tho stoamer'si M officers behaved with great calmness,' but the crew, composed of Lascars, H was panic-stricken and delayed tho IH lowering of tho boats. I Boats lowered from a cross-channel steamer picked up a large number of others. The life boats were sent out from shore in reply to signals of dis- H tress. An attempt was first mado to beach tbo Oceana, but she sank quick- The collision occurred while the pas-' M sengers were in their berths. Tho wa- ter rushed in so quickly that tho low- er decks were awash In a few minutes j and tho passengers, trying to make M their way to the upper deoks, had to H wade through water up to their M waists. vM The first boat lowered was swamped l and the passengers wero thrown Into M the water, but "were all picked up. The t M second boat was just sinking when-a. M life boat from shore rescued it Tho Piragua is reported to-havo pro- M "coeded on her voyage with most- 6E M her headgear carried away. H Tho Oceana was one 'of -the voidest M of the Poninsular and Orient liners jH and this was to havo been hor Jnst voyage. She has been running con- tinuously since 188S. IH Half-Clad Survivors. M London, 'March 16. A scoro of pas- sengers from the wrecked steamer ' M Oceana reached Victoria station today M clad only in night dresses and paja- M mas and covered with dressing gowns M and overcoats. H Half of tho number wero women, M most of whom were in a state of col- H lapse Some of thorn were without H stockings or shoos and somo who had H fallen into tho water during the res- H cue had been unable to change theiri H clothing i H When the passengers pushed on deck: H after tho first shock the water was H already dashing over the liner's bows.;. H The officers and somo of the meniberoi. jH of tho crew quickly marshaled the pas- H sengers near the boats. ' jf When the boats were lowered thco jH women wero passed down first, but jH panic occurred among tho Lascars and' IH thoy tried to get into the boats "wltlx, H the women. , H Pisagua In Sinking Condition. '1 Dover, Eng., March 16. Tho Ger- H man bark Pisngua arrived here in a. IH sinking condition. Soveral tugswerff) IH In attendance. H oo H |