MAIL STEAMER FOUNDERS.
FIFTY-THREE LIVES LOST, fey Telegraph.—Frees Association.—Opjriefct. New Yo-rk, January 10. The mail H t r amor Clallam, from Seattle, foundered in a fierce gala four miles off Victoria, British Columbia. Fifty-three persona were drowned. Too seas extinguished the fires, and the, steamer became unmanageable. The women avid children were placed in three lifeboats, which capsized, and all were, drowned. Tugs rescued the thirty-three remaining on board.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12468, 12 January 1904, Page 5
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69MAIL STEAMER FOUNDERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12468, 12 January 1904, Page 5
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