Ogden Sun | 1905-11-07 | Page 3 | Disastrous Collision

disastrous COLLISION in italian navy were fatally injured new york nov 3 according to dispatches from genoa the fetes in connection with the inauguration of alie new harbor works had a tragic conclusion three officers losing their lives in an accident says a naples dispatch A storm came up wednesday toward the end 0 a dinner given to the french and italian naval officers on board the british battleship goliath A cutter from the italian cruiser beppo garibaldi with seven officers and eight seamen on board nevertheless left the goliath for tho shore the cutter was crossing the outer harbor when it was run down and sunk by the packet steamship maria teresa an alarm was immediately raised the warships in the roadstead turned their searchlights on the harbor boats were launched and all the occupants of the cutter were rescued several officers were in a desperate condition and during the night captain surgeon enrico captain engineer fer montanaro and chief commissary arturo grassl died in the hospital lieutenants prema and modena are reported mortally injured the ships of the italian and foreign squadrons are flying flags at half mast and their departure has been postponed in alor to send deputations to tha funeral of the victims