Coalville Times | 1899-04-07 | Page 2 | Lost at Sea

LOST AT SEA. )er On. Ilunlrel 1 eople Went llonn Willi Hi. Mraiurr Stella Southampton April? the patten-gcr patten-gcr tteaincr Stella plying between this port and the Channel Islands, crathe I upon the dreaded latquct locks near tho Island of Mdernc), In a dense fog, and foundered In ten minutes, her boilers exploding with a tremcnlout report at the went don 11 In splto of ' this it It titld there at 110 panic on board lhe coasting steamer Lyux. which brought tho newt of the disaster disas-ter here picked up four boali aud forty persons It Is estimated that 120 persons per-sons were drowucd The second ofllccr of the steamer, who wat among tho rctcued, tayt that . a collapsible boat was launched full of people, but he thlnki tho struck on, the rockt, owing to the fog Another steamer has picked up a boat containing forty live persons, including in-cluding twenty women, who escaped from tho wrecked steamer They have been landed here Ihere were about . 183 pttsengert on board, and crew of thirty five men