Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — FORTY BODIES IN THE SEA. [ARTICLE]

FORTY BODIES IN THE SEA.

Grim Evidence* of • Great Marine Disaster Seen Off the Coast of France. A dispatch to the London News from Tloulogne-Sur-Mer says that a captain of a sloop, which has just arriyod there, reports that between 1 and 3 o'clock, on Sunday mornijig the sloop, being then about two mllesoff St. Valery-Sur-Sommo and driving through a furifius storm passed a large number of haman bodies floating in the sea, surrounded by a quantity of wreckage. The captain says he counted forty corpses, and from their appearance judged them to be the bodies of sailors and passengers of some steamers. News has just been received at Lisbon that a terrible hurricane passed over tko Cape Verde islands on Sept. 13. Full particulars are wanting, but it is reported that many houses were demolished, many plantations devastated, hundreds of head of cattle were killed, and several vessels foundered. _ A Jack-tbe-ripper crime, as horrible as ever was chronicled, was committed on the outskirts of Glasgow. The victim was a woman of medium age and robust physique. She was completely disemboweled and kH her limbs were severed from her body.