Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — 106 ARE DROWNED IN SEA DISASTER [ARTICLE]

106 ARE DROWNED IN SEA DISASTER

Ships Collide, Boiler Explodes and Vessel Goes Down. JEWISH FUGITIVES AMONG DEAD Trapped on Burning, Sinking Boat Many Thrilling Scenes Are Witnessed—Less Than a Score on Board Escape. Odessa, July 15. —Trapped on a burning, sinking steamer, 106 men, women and children perished near Kherson. on the Black Sea, according to dispatches received here.' After a collision with the steamer Wampoa, the passenger steamer Lovki. crowded with passengers, foundered. Her boilers exploded and many of the victims were scalded to death Many of the dead aie reported to have been Jewish fugitives. Not a score of those who were aboard the ill-fated ship escaped In the tangle of blazing'debris men fought down women in the struggle for safety. Mothers threw their children overboard, hoping they would be picked up, only to see them drown. The stampede for the boats, in which all but the strongest were trampled down, was checked by an explosion of the boilers, which lifted the vessel from the water and rent it asunder. The survivors declare that the explosion of the boilers filled the vessel with steam within a few momenta. There were many of the passengers quartered between decks, and these had no way to escape the steam. - They shrieked for aid as the riven, vessel foundered. But a fraction of the small boats could be lowered in time, the explosion tearing some of them from the davits and splintering the bottom of others. v The Democrat and Indianapolis News, each a full year, $3.75