SCUTTLING A HAYTIAN WARSHIP.
EIGHTY PERSONS DROWNED. Timw Auodibon- -Electric Tclecr*Dt>—Copjr^as. New York, September 2i. IJews from the West Indies state that the Haytian warship Alexandra Petion, which was conveying a number of diplomatists to negotiate a treaty with San Domingo, sank like a stone off Cape Liburon at the western extremity of the island. Eighty persons were drowned, including all the officers and the foreign consuls. Onl} T one person was saved. It is suspected that the vessel was deliberately scuttled.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 8597, 26 September 1893, Page 5
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