LOSS OF A MAIL BOAT.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12718, 14 February 1910, Page 3

LOSS OF A MAIL BOAT.

FOUNDERS ON THE MINORCA COAST. ONLY ONE~"sURVIVOR. [Pbebs Absooiation— Copibight.J (ReceivedcFob .13, -5 p.m.) , : • . v Parts, Feb ,12. The steamer- General- Chanzyj .a mailboat belonging.*) the Campagmo Xrale Traifs^Slantiaue, .running between Marseilles and Algiers, foundered on the north coast ;ot\ Minorca, with 87 passengers and a crew of 47 | aboard, chiefly French and Italians. The only' survivor, a man named Morel, a customs- official, is unable^ogive any account of the disaster. The steamer was apparently caught in a violent northerly gale and broke in two upon striking a. reef .