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Show mum lost WHEN CONCRETE STEAMER SINKS! Vessel Goes b Bottom Tlree Minutes Afer Collision in Dark OTHER SHIP BADLY DAMAGED BUT FLOATS Search for Missing Seamen Frui'ess in Narragansett Bay After Accident NEWPORT. R L, Oct. oo. Members Mem-bers oi the coasf guard crew stationed here reponod early t6da 'hat pa trace had been found of anj of th 19 tm.-Ing tm.-Ing members of ihe crew of ;l who were on tne concrete steamer Cape' Fear when that vessel w.i.. sunk lu Narriagansett bay last night in a col-. I'.sion with the Savannah line steamer,' City of Atlanta. The const guardsmen conducted an all nighi Bearch and found only quantities quanti-ties of wreckage. Points along the1 d'ore .t'.so reportetl wreckage but there was no word of the missing men. Both 1 csfiels carried only heir crews. TRl t K AMIDSHIPS The Cape Fear was struck amidships! nd ssink In three minute-. Shout half' way between' Castle Bills, on the New-! port shore and ' k dose Island going down bow first in 2'J fathoms, the jer.itol depth hi the hay. The "lty of Atlanta's how was badly lamageQ, Her bulkheads li Id, how-! aer, and she anchored in the bay. ' rho Cape fear went down ro QUlpkly ha! the majority of her crew had to i jmp into Qle water ACOIDJENT IiKm RIB1 I Captain Garfield, of the c-tj u,' At-i-:.f, dcseatbtig tbe-aecldcn1 sutd thai '. In picked up the lighta of the Cape, Fear and signalled with or.e whistle which was answered lie-was bearing Hteadlly to port, he said, With plenty j (ft clearance room when suddenly tho I'.ipe Fear swung across h!s how, blowing two whittles as a s.gnal i.,ter r.e hd turned to cross to the other side. Captain Garfield said ho ordered, tul speed asterq, but could not aoid! the collision. |