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Show I COLLISION OF TWO STEAMERS One Goes Down and Fourteen Persons, Including Captain, arc Drowned. The Vcsstl Which Escaped Serious In-Jury In-Jury Drifted Awav Without Offer-Ing Offer-Ing Assistance to the Occupants Occu-pants of the Steamtr She Had Sunk, Cardiff The llrltlah aleamer Hell opotla oollldMl Hatimlar at midnight with the British MMMr Orlanda, outward out-ward bound (rum I'rnarth. The Orlandn sank and fourteen persons, per-sons, Including her eaptaln, wcro drownoil The night was clear, but there was a gale blowing and a heavy ea running. Tho Orlanda, which wai enel laden for Hpeitla, waa struck between the engine en-gine room and the stoke hole and was so badly damaxed that ahe began Im mediately to fill and heeled over, sinking sink-ing In half an hour Tho Hollopolla drilled away without rendering any assistance. Tho captain mustered nil tho Orl-anda'a Orl-anda'a nineteen men on deck. ISach waa given a Hfo-belt and Jumped Into (he sea Jlli of them reached a water logged lifeboat, tho only boat It was posslllo tie launch, thn other having been smashed at tho tlma of tho col llslon, and all of them, with tho ox cepllon of ono who died from eihau Hon, wera rescued by a pilot boat, after Buffering greatly from eiposuro. Tho Uolloolla had been chartered to convey 2.000 Hpanlsh (.migrants to Honolulu In a letter to Lloyd's Shipping Ship-ping (laietto tho ship brokers said they had nrranged the charter In behalf be-half of the American government, but It waa staled olsewhoro that tho Spaniards Span-iards had been engaged by Hawaiian sugar Interests to replace Japanese, laborers Tho Hcllnpolls waa at Harry, Har-ry, Wales, Saturday and waa to proceed pro-ceed thenre to Malaga for tho Immigrants Immi-grants Tho Orlandn waa built In 1870 at Uvarpoot Hho was of 1,000 tons displacement dis-placement and belonged to tho Oriental Ori-ental Hteamshlp company of Liverpool. |