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Show The "Capital City" Wreck. New Yoek, April 1. It is learned that the "Capital City" was drifted somewhat from her course by a heavy easterly gale. She was proceeding slowly through a dense fog, when she struck on the rock3 at Parson's Point and stove a hole in her bow. She began to fill immediately, and was at once headed for shore and beached, settling down in six fathoms fath-oms of water. She had on board only two passengers, and they and the crew of forty-five forty-five men reached the shore in boats. The "Capital City" is a vessel of 1,400 tons capacity, ca-pacity, 206 feet, long and draws 7 feet of water. She will probably go to pieces tonight. to-night. She is valued at $100,000, and her cargo at $25,000. the "etjbope." Quoque, L. I., March 31. The officers and crew, twenty-seven in all, of the steamer "Europe," have been brought ashore after considerable difficulty, owing to the high, boisterous surf. They are quartered at the life-saving station. The captain reports five feet of water in the "Europe's" hold. The sea is running higher every hour and is breaking over the stranded steamer. It is feared she will be driven over the bar and wrecked. The "Europe" is an Union steamship steam-ship of 1,000 tons, 2G0 feet long, draws 22 feet of water, and is rated Al. She is owned in Hamburg. |