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Show TRANSPORT STILL HELD PRISONER HrGHTOWN. Slcilly Inlands, -Vpril IS. The Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha, which went aground at an early hnr off the Sclcllly Islands Is-lands Is Rtill fast on the rocks and I hero la llttlo hope of saving her. All the passengers, numbering sixty-alx, wire taken off in safety, as well as about one-third of tho cargo. Should Un. sea continue smooth as now seems probable the greater part of the car-o car-o will be saved. No attempt was made today to pot the liner off the rocks She llos on a big jagged pinnacle nearly a i.illw from Bryhor Island From the first, pronpects of floating tho uteanier looked hopoleshs and at high tide she wna still held fast forward of the brioge. Tbo engine room stokehold and aft part of ihe vessel howevi-r, ore dry. All the baggage belonging to the passengers has boon brought to St. Mnrya The 6uu has been Invisible In-visible since Wednesday, and observations obser-vations by the officers of the Minnehaha Minne-haha woie impossible but the lead has been kept going slneo noon Sun-da, Sun-da, when Shlpmen head was sighted |