Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1914 — MINE BLOWS UP SHIP [ARTICLE]

MINE BLOWS UP SHIP

2,500 Are Rescued From French Steamer. Peasants on a Channel Vessel in Panic, But Only Twenty Are Drowned.. Dover, via London, Oct. 27. — The French steamer Amiral Ganteaume was disabled by a mine just outside of Boulogne harbor. Twenty-five hundred passengers were transferred safely to the channel steamer Queen. Between twenty and thirty womeh and children were drowned during the panic that followed the blast. Most of the passengers were peasants from Pas-de-Calals, who had been taken aboard at Calais to be transferred to Boulogne, When the steamer Queen left the scene of the accident„ the Amiral Ganteaume was still afloat and British destroyers were standing by. It is believed that the steamer struck one of the mines laid early in the war and the pilot had lost track of the submerged explosive.