Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1911 — BOAT FOUNDERS IN FOG; NINETY-THREE MEET DEATH. [ARTICLE]

BOAT FOUNDERS IN FOG; NINETY-THREE MEET DEATH.

Passenger Steamer in Collision With An (English Vessel, Sinks In Gibraltar Straits. Gibraltar, August 9.—The French steamer Emir floundered today five miles east of Tarifa, Spain, in the Straits of Gibraltar. Ninety-three persons were drowned. The ship sailed from here at 3 o’clock this morning for a, Moroccan port An hour later in a dense fog she collided with the British steamer Silverton, bound from Newport, England, for Taranto, Italy. The crew of the latter rescued twenty-seven of the Emir’s crew and passengers. The Silverton later put in here with her starboard bow stove in and her forepeak full of water. The Emir sank a few minutes after the collision. Sixty-nine passengers and twenty-four of the crew went down with the ship. Twelve of the crew and fifteen passengers were saved. All the passengers were French. The Emir was a vessel of 1,291 tons and was owned by the Compagnie De Navigation Mixte, Meseilles.