Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1889 — TWENTY-FOUR DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

TWENTY-FOUR DROWNED.

Two Ocean Vessel* Collide and Both Go To the Bottom. .. .y" The steamer Noreid collided with the British ship Killechan, Captain Manteon, from Lyttleton via Queenstown, off Dungeneas, Sunday night, and both vessels went to the bottom in a very abort time. Twenty-four . persons w*re drowned, including the captain of the Killochan. Nine members of the crews were rescued, one of whom afterward died. The weather was clear at the time of the collision. The Bpanisb mail steamer Remus has foundered off the island of Biliran, one of the Philippines. All the passengers are supposed to have been drowned.