EIGHT LIVES LOST.
sailtng Vessel run' down by a MAIL STEAMER. -Tho :Duteh, mail steamship Vondpl arrived at Southampton on Sunday 1 -afternoon (February: 9)- from Amsterdam --..en' "route. to Bar 'tavia, having - bebn, in 'collision' Channel. '
All went well with' .tho steamer until about 4.30 on ; .Sunday, morning,, shp: being then a few. nules/ . The weather at-tho time -was silghtly hazy. . Just then a: light lo'bmed up, which appareptly. a- vessol's storiij light. Almost at .the -"same instant, a terrible impact took place; 'causing' ' great ' o'xcitoniont.'. aboard both 'for tho .V/oiidd had'• collided .with,.-a, three-masted sailing vessel, .cutting her almost 'completely, in half,' the' masts 'falling. 011. the liner's deck. Tho sailing ship tlic-n slid: round on t)io Vondel's starboard sido and, with a crow of eight, sank instantly! :-/. : ' /'.•. . Tho only discovery madn was a -lifeboat, bottom upwards and badly '-smashed,, bearing the .nivmo,.Pool v. Fisher, - of- Barrow, whiclv: evidently is' tlie '/'vessel .-.that /.:foundered -with,all -hands.' ', Tlie. Vpndel has a toipiage '.0f'5860,: and tbe : ;Popl;;Fißhqr,' owned by -MosarsV J; Fisher and Sons,. .Barrow., .ljuis a. tbnjiaffl of -135. -
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 10
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180EIGHT LIVES LOST. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 10
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