DISASTERS AT SEA.
» —— LOSS BY FIRE AND STRANDING. (AUSTJtALIAN AND K. 55. CABLS ASSOCIATIOK.) (Aturtit's lihtoniui.) NEW YORK, October 18. According to a message from May* port, Florida,, at least six passengers are believed to have been drowned and many injured in the loss of the steamer Comanche, which left Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon for New" York, and was destroyed by lit© six nliles off the c shore during tho night. Survivors were brought to -MaylJorfa i by two vessels which effected rescues in fj heavy sea. | VICTORIA (8.C.), October 18. " I A search is being conducted for seven men believed to have btea drowned on iSaturday night when tht> tug Hone was stranded ajid capsized. Tho Hope was engaged in salvage operations on the freighter Eerndyk, and came to grief 10 miles west of here, precipitating 42 members of tlifc crew into tho water.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18517, 20 October 1925, Page 9
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