STEAMER SUNK
CAPTAIN ALONE DROWNED PASSENGERS STRANDED IN PENAL SETTLEMENT LINER SENT TO RESCUE (United Press Association.—B? Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Rec. January 26, 5.5 p.m.) Buenos Aires, January 24. The German steamer Monte Cervantes struck a reef in Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, on Wednesday. Her 1500 passengers and crew were safely transferred to the shore, but Captain Dreyer returned to the ship and was drowned next day when a storm arose and the steamer broke in halves, and slipped into deep water under the buffeting of the thundering seas. The passengers number 1100, Including 50 South American millionaires, and some concern is felt regarding their plight, as the island of Ushlma, on which they are taking refuge, is a penal settlement separated from the mainland by the Beagle Channel. It is a bleak, forbidding spot. The only buildings besides the prison quarters are a disused mission station and a few stores and residences, altogether inadequate for such a large influx of lodgers. The steamer Monte Sarmiento, a sister ship to the sunken craft, has been ordered south, from Montevideo to-pick up the stranded tourists. [The Monte Cervantes , is a motorship of 13,913 gross tonnage, and was built in 1927.] ,
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 104, 27 January 1930, Page 11
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