Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — BIG STEAMER WRECKED. [ARTICLE]

BIG STEAMER WRECKED.

L isitnuia with 503 Paaaenger* Aboard Goes Aground. The Orient Steam’' Navigation Company's steamer Lusitania, Captain MeNay, from Liverpool for Montreal, having 500 passengers on board, was wrecked Tuesday night off Cape Ballard. The Lusitania was bound round Cape Race for Montreal, with a large cargo and n ship load of passengers. She mistook her course in a dense fog- and went ashore near Renews, twenty miles north of Cape Race, before daybreak. The ship ran over a reef nud hangs ngainst a cliff. The passeugers, who arc mostly emigrants, were panic-stricken. They stampeded and fought for the boats, but were overcome by the officers and crew, who secured control after great trouble and a prhlonged struggle with the rougher element among the passengers, who used knives.