Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1877 — A Narrow Escape. [ARTICLE]

A Narrow Escape.

A short time ago, as the British iron screw-steamer Knight Templar, bound for Bombay, was steaming along in the Mediterranean, off the gulf of Tunis, about eleven miles from the island of Galita, she suddenly sustained a totally unexpected shock. A deep rumbling noise was heard beneatli the sqg, resembling the sound caused by blowing off water below the surface from a boiler. The noise lasted about a minute, and was accompanied by a seething mass of white foam. The steamer was found to be filling rapidly, and the . Captain at once steered for the island of Galita, where the vessel was run ashore. By diving it was found that ten feet of her keel had been torn out near the stem, and sixteen feet of the after part of the keel twisted. The cause of the disaster is supposed to have been a submarine volcanic explosion, the ship, while in deep water, bebeing struck by the upheaved rock.