Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — FATE OF THE NARONIC. [ARTICLE]

FATE OF THE NARONIC.

Letter Picked Up In a Battle on the Virginia Coast. T William Johnson, the winter watchman at OceanVillc, Va., a summer resort near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, Wednesday afternoon, picked up on the beach at that place a champagne bottle with several corks tied about its neck and with a let- . ter inclosed, giving alleged information from one of the crew of the sinking of the White Star line steamship Naronic. Ths letter was; 3:19 a. m., Feb. 19, S. S. Naronic White Star line. At sea. To who picks this np: Report when you find this to our agents if not heard of before, that our ship is fast sinking !«• neath the waves and it’s such a storm that we can never live in the small boara. One boat has already gone with her human cargo below. God let ail of us live through this. We were struck by an Iceberg in a blinding storm and floated two hours. Now it’s 3:20 a. m. by my watch and the great ship is deck level with the sea. Report to the agents at Broadway New York, M. Kersey & Co. Good-bye, all. John Olens,Cattleman.