People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — CHOLERA ON THE SHIP. [ARTICLE]

CHOLERA ON THE SHIP.

Crew Weakened by Deaths-and Survivors Wrecked on a Reef. Barsapoes, Nov. 16.—The British bark Mendoza, Capt. Martin, bound from Dakar, Senegal, west coast of Africa, for Barbadoes in ballast, reports that during the voyage cholera broke out on board and the captain and eleven men died from the disease. Only fonr of the men were left to navigate the vessel, which drifted helplessly ashore on Vauelin reef, southeast coast of Martinique, and became a total wreck-