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Show AMERICAN WHALER REPORTED LOST A BRAZIL PORT Nov. 19. The loss of the American whaler Alice Knowles, 302 tons gross, was reported on the arrival today of tho American schooner schoon-er Fred W. Thurlow. Charles Gilbert, master of the Thurlow, rescued two Portuguese sailors on September 7. They reported they had been in the water for three days and nights, holding hold-ing to part of a life boat. The Alice Knowles was wrecked in a hurricane on tho night of September Septem-ber 3. All the crew including Captain iegarty and the captain's young son, were wahed overboard when -the vessel ves-sel capsized. The Thurlow sighted the two Portuguese Portu-guese signalling for help. Thcro was no other trace of the whaler or her crew. oo |