THE CITY OF MONTREAL.
FUItTHER PARTICULARS. London, August 25. Several fires occurred simultaneously among a cargo of cotton stowed in the hold of the City of Montreal when the vessel was 400 miles from Newfoundland. There was no sign of panic, and both crew and passengers worked nobly for hours in blinding smoke, but at daybreak they were compelled to take to the boats, and in the hurry to do so nineteen of the passengers were nearly left behind. A passing barque rescued all those on board, with the exception of the occupants of one boat. SAFETY OF THE MISSING MEN. Later. The seven passengers and six of the crew of the Inman steamship City of Montreil, supposed to have been drowned by the upsetting of their boat, have arrived at Falmouth, having been picked up by a passing vessel. The disaster, therefore, ended in no loss of life whatever.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 33, 27 August 1887, Page 2
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150THE CITY OF MONTREAL. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 33, 27 August 1887, Page 2
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