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Show MANY CHILDREN L0S1 IN DISASTER London, Jan. 4. A press telegTam from Cario reports that only twelve out of eighty saloon passengers on board the Persia were saved. The Peninsular & Oriental company now estimates the loss of life to total 222. The name of Robert Ney McNeely, American consul at Aden, is not on the official list of tho survivors received re-ceived by the admiralty. Other prominent men and women who perished as the result of the latest la-test massacre Include Colonel E. R, Swlney, Lieutenant -Colonel Howell, Lieutenant Colonel Nethersole, Captain Cap-tain J. T. Lldwick, Lieutenant V. Gough, tho Rev. A. C. Grant, pastor of the Anglican church at Bombay; Mrs. H. Deb Coddington, wife of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel Coddington; Mrs. H. T. Tresham, who was the daughter of Major Burch of Leytonstone, and F. , M. Coleman, one of the proprietors of tho Times of India, Bombay. Captain W. H. S. Hall of the Persia was drowned. He went down with his ship. As ttie Persia sank four minutes after being torpedoed, it was seemingly a miracle that anyone was saved. Tho survivors among tho passengers pas-sengers Include fifteen women out of eighty-six, ten military officors and eight foreigners. All of the thirty-five thirty-five children aboard seem to have perished. The Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Steam-ship company Issued a statement today to-day to tho offect that tho steamship Gcollng was sunk In a collision with the steamship Bonvilston. |