A FATAL COLLISION.
BIG STEAMER FOUNDERS. 200 LIVES LOST. PARIS, June 8. The Frais'-inet Company's steamers Insulaire and Liban collided off Marseilles. Of 240 passengers and the crew of tho Liban it is feared only 40 are saved. The Liban, a 3000-ton ship, sank in ten minutes, bow foremost. Wild disorder prevailed amongst the passengers, the vessel disappearing amidst wild shrieking. A sailor, who was a passenger by the Liban, attributes the collision to inefficiency on the part of tho Liban's captain. The weather was calm at the time of the disaster. There was only time to lower one boat. M. Fraissinet and Cio are managers for the Compagnie Marseillaise, de Navigation a Vapour, to which company the two vessels belong. The Liban is reprit-tered at Lloyds as a 2308 tons gross register boat (the cablegram cays 3000 tons). She is an iron fcrew three-masted steamer, built in 1882 by Messrs R. Napier and Co., of Glasgow. The Insulaire is a small steel steamer of 934 tons gross register.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 19
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169A FATAL COLLISION. Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 19
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