Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — Warship Near Being Sunk. [ARTICLE]

Warship Near Being Sunk.

While the blizzard which has swept the Atlantic coast was at jts height the Unit 1 - ed States cruiser Marblehead had a narrow escape from being sent to the bottom in midoeean by the "Cuuarder Etruria. Only the best Of seamanship by the Etruria’s captain prevented an ocean horror, the vessels passing each other so closely together that a biscuit could have been tossed from one to the other. Between T,OOO and 0,000 poynds'of plug tobacco is yearly furnished to the- penitentievy inmates in Mississippi.