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Show 'mm---. TOj SHIP Perilous Voyage of a Steamer From Colombo Colom-bo to New York Hoston. Oct. 2. The two million and a nail dollars' worth of products of the Far Fact, which the steamer Kalscnua has just brought to this port, were carried across the seas amid monv perils. The KMscnsa's trouble began on July 17 last, when she was four day on from Colombo for New York. The steamer ran into a monsoon n tint day and slmultnne-I slmultnne-I ously the crew had to tight a Hie I which had broken out In one of the bunkers. Hefore the blaze was subdued sub-dued It had done damage estimated a: Jl.Vtioo. Tho Kalsengu rede out the Morni sa'ely. A coral reef then brotig'u trouble, the stcnniei' scraping over It on August S. betwe.Mi Singapore and KoIh. but niminciiig to work off w Ithont scrlous'damagc. Hardly had the Klasenga left Calcutta Cal-cutta on Sept. 7 for Hoston and New-York, New-York, than she ran down and sank a ' native llshing schooner. There were 1 n:- casualties. Hacking away from j the schooner, the steamer landed on ' a mud bunk. The riling tide release J her. While the steamer was loading ! tea and rubber at Colombo, the British j steamer Janus, in preparing to sail, V parted her stern lines and ran against i the Kalsenga, nearly pushing her Into In-to the sea wall, but dning little damage. dam-age. An Arab fireman, crazed by the heal ; of the llrcroom. niched on deck while the steamer wa3 passing through the IU'd Sea and Jumped overbratd. He was not seen again. Half way acros? the Atlantic there was another suicide, a pet i'iionke, belonging to one of th officers, leaping into the Fea. The remainder of the vovnge was unexciting, but Captain Debus appeared appear-ed unusually glad to make port. |