Show COLLISION AT SEA many europeans and chinese drowned TWO BRITISH VESSELS COLLIDE disaster occurred in yellow sea captain five officers and three hundred chinese drowned american warships sent boats to the assistance of the wrecked london april 30 A dispatch from shanghai today says that the british steamer was sunk by a collision with the steamer new chane off shanghai the went down immediately but the new chang was beached to prevent her from sinking aa it was feared the accident was dicastro dia astro ous the european survivors of the sunken vessel were second officer cooper and third officer alien tho drowned include the captein five eng ush officers and chinese the united states war ships olmpia boston yorktown and detroit sent boats to the assistance of the saving many lives the vessels were british steamers engaged in china seas |