Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — Vessel and All on Board Given Up as Lost. [ARTICLE]

Vessel and All on Board Given Up as Lost.

The English steamship Madrid, which sailed from Philadelphia, May 25, for London, via Bull river, South Carolina, where she loaded a cargo, of phosphate rock, has been given up as lost with all on board. She was commanded by Captain Matthew Carson, who had with him a crew of twenty-five men. The steamer and cargo were 1 valued at $ 150,000. ■