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Show Ship Goes Down With 83 Perishing. Riga. Latvia, The coasting steamer steam-er N.eibade sank Thursday night In the Gulf of Riga with the loss of fifty-three fifty-three sailors and thirty passengers. The cause of the disaster is not known, but it was possibly due to the explosion o'f a floating mine. The ship foundered in a heavy storm that prevented pre-vented any rescue. The Neibade was scarcely three miles off the beach of Wecaki north of Riga when she sank. People along the shore saw her sig- nals of distress, but the heavy seas prevented them from launching any boats fo- a rescue. |