TERRIBLE DISASTER.
A COLLISION. OVER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERSONS DROWNED. SUNK IN FIVE MINUTES. London, Nov. 20, The steamer Soholtein bound to New York from Rotterdam collided in the English channel with a vessel, the name of which has not as yet been discovered. The Soholtein left Rotterdam with about two hundred persons on board) and most of the passengers were asleep when the look-out cried out " a light right ahead.” The captain who was on the bridge shouted to the man at the wheel, “ hard a-port," and gave the signal to the engine room for full speed astern, but before the orders could be carried out the two vessels struck;
In a few minutes the people who had rushed on deck realised that the steamer was sinking, and a scene of the wildest confusion took place, but it only lasted a very short time for within ten minutes from the time the Scholtien was struck the waters closed over her, and out of the two hundred persons who had set sail from Rotterdam a few hours previous one hundred and forty were drowned. The remainder were rescued and landed at Dover.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 70, 22 November 1887, Page 2
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193TERRIBLE DISASTER. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 70, 22 November 1887, Page 2
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