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Show DISASTERS IN AS1ATK WATERS Victoria, B. C, Sept. 29. Several steamship disasters with heavy loss of life resulted from severe storms in Japanese and Chinese waters shortly short-ly prior to the sailing of the steamer Sado Maru, when arrived here yesterday. yes-terday. Tho steamer Tayol Klse Maru plying ply-ing between Amoy and Chuan Chnii, went down and 2"0 passengers, many Chinese, were drowned. Thft river steamer Ancln Maru collided col-lided with a bridge on the Shinana river, near Nagooka, and foundered, fifty of the eighty persons being drowned. Tho Osaka Shosen coasting steamor Klikiwa Maru went ashore September ft near Chlno island. Wakayama, an1 her crew was rescued with difficulty by fishermen. |