Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST. [ARTICLE]

TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.

It has just been learned that the British ship EarlWemyss, from San Francisco, May 29, for Queenstown, and the ship Ardenchapel, whiph left Liverpool on July 31 for Calcutta, collided at sea off Pernambuco on Aug. 25. The Karl Wemyss sank. The wife of Captain Colquhoun, his three children and nineteen of the crew were drowned. The Ardenchapel was badly damaged, and several of her crew deserted and took refuge in the life-boats of the Earl Wemyss. Captain Colquhoun and several of the crew of the Wemyss also took to the life-boats, and were saved. All of the survivors were picked up by the ship Creedmore, irom Manitee, which will arrive in New York in a few days. The Ardenchapel put into the port' of Fernando do ~Noronha for repairs.