Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — NEARLY THREE HUNDRED LOST AT SEA. [ARTICLE]

NEARLY THREE HUNDRED LOST AT SEA.

’S A dispatch from Manzanilloo, Mexico says the American steamer Roseville has arrived there and reports passing the brig Tahiti at sea, floating bottom up. Th« Talilti created a sensation September 3C last by putting into Drake's bay, Sap Francisco, in distress. She had 370 Gilbert Islanders on board under contract, for work in Mexico at starvation wages These men were practically slaves and there was much talk seizing the vessel. 'Collector Phelps, however, decided he had no right to detain her and the brig left. It seems almost certain that all on board have been lost, as the ship’s boats were still with her and nothing has been heard of any of the survivors. The wreck must haxß happened at least a month ago. Beside the inlanders, the vessel had nc board officers and a crew of twenty men making a total of 291 on board the ill-fated craft