Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1882 — SHIPWRECK. [ARTICLE]

SHIPWRECK.

The Steamer Westphalia Sinks an Unknown Steamship Off Portsmouth. Nothing Seen of the Unknown Steamer, and Not a Soul Saved. [London Cablegram. 1 The steamer Westphalia, of the HamburgAmerican line, from New York Nov. 2 for Hamburg via Plymouth, has put into Portsmouth with a hole in her port bow received by collision with an unknown steamer off Beachy Head early this morning. A boat lowered from the Westphalia to search for the other steamer is missing. It is believed that the-missin? steamer has gone to the bottom with all on board, and also the missing b at of the'Westphalia, which contained an officer and six men The officers of the Westphalia report that it was intensely dark at the time of the collision, with a heavy sea. The collision occurred at 2o’clock in the morning. The missing steamer was bark-rigged and not seen after the Collision. Capt Ludwig, of the Westphalia, immediately di-patebed a boat to try to find her. He then made ready all the other boats, in the event of water gaining on the Westphalia. All the pumps were kepi going without intermission. The mails and ninety passengers landed at Portsmouth this afternoon and wid be forwarded to their destinations at the earliest possible moment. Th Westphalia is now moored alongs de the dockyard and kept clear of water by her pumps. The cargo is n t greatly damaged. Great praise is accorded Capt Ludwig, officers and crew, for coolness and courage from the moment of the collision. There was a very heavy sea on, aud it was too dark to see the ship’s length. FORTY PRBSONH DBOWNED. The steamship Angelico, plying between Gifla and Hull, has foundered in the North Sea, and forty persons drowned.