Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — SAYS 500 PERSONS PERISH [ARTICLE]

SAYS 500 PERSONS PERISH

Rome Report Declares French Steamship Chaproi From Marseilles Struck a Mine. Rome, Jan. 17. —Five hundred persons perished when the French steamship Ohhproi, outward-bound from Marseilles, struck a mine and sank withjin four minutes in the Straits of Messina.