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Show :: STEAMER 0N i ROCKY REEF All Passengers Saved By Prompt Reply to Wireless Signals Halifax. N. S., Jan- 13. The stcaui-tW stcaui-tW er Uraniura. which terminated her voyage from Rotterdam by piling up iO1 1 on a rockv roef ten mile below Halt--..r. fax in a fog yesterday, remained faut 1 today with Captain Eusta'co and crew aboard, but with all the 880 passen-I passen-I pera sale ashore at the immigration J Btation here. Whether the vesael -m could b saved was problematical. The stoamer is 6tnck bowts-on. with 17 fathoms of ater under her stern The bowplates are ripped and No 1 hold is wnter filled The vessel's position Is only a few hundred yards I from Uif lighthouse at CbeDUCtO heaJ, where the keeper declares he was ililowing his foR horn when the vessel ves-sel btruck. It was on the name lede and not far from this spot that the steamer Atlantic of the White Star I line was lost In April of 1873, at the sacrifice of 000 lives Rescue of Passenger. The rescue of the Uranium's passengers pas-sengers was accomplished by lifeboats from the Chebucto head and by trans fer to the government steamer Laaj Leurier, which was prompt to reply to wireless signals There was no panic All the passengers were landed hero during the night Six hundred of them, bound for New York, probably will leave today by special traln The Uranium is 22 years old and has sailed about all of the seven Boas under four different owner ana un der as many different names She was christened the Avoca. later named the San Fernando and then the Atlanta. At-lanta. The Uranium Steamship company, com-pany, her present owner, :ave her the coiupany'6 name. Her only serious accident ac-cident of record is a collision with the steamship Nordenfels orf Rotterdam four years ago, when she was badly damaped and one of hor crew was killed Did Not Hear Fog Alarm There is no explanation of the present pres-ent stranding of the ship She was considerably out of her course Captain Cap-tain Eustace says he did not hear the fog alarm, although where he struck is not a quarter of a mile distant from lt |