Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — FOUR HUNDRED LOST. [ARTICLE]

FOUR HUNDRED LOST.

Terrible Disaster at Sea Near Tripoli, Syria. Slaking of the British Battle-Ship Victoria as the Benoit of a Collision. Rear Admiral Albert H. Markham, of the Trafalgar, the flagship of the rearadmiral. in the Mediterranean, has telegraphed to the Admirality, at London, from Tripoli, Syria, under date of the 23d, as follows: “I regret to report that whHe maneuvering off Tripoli, nthis afternoon, the Victoria and Camperdown collided. The Victoria sank in fifteen minutes, in eighteen fathoms of water. ' She lies bottom uppermost. The Camperdown’s ram struck the Victoria forward of the turret on the starboard- side. Twenty-one officers were drowned. Two hundred and fifty-five men were saved. The injury to the Camperdown has not yet been ascertained.” The complement of officers and crew of the Victoria comprise 600 men. The list pf officers drowned included, besides ViceAdmiral Tryon, Chaplain Morris, Lieut. Munro Fleet, paymaster Rickford, first engineer Foreman, engineer Harding, assistant engineers Deadman, Hatherly and Seaton, gunner Howell, boatswain Barnard, carpenter Beall, midshipmen Inglis, Grieve, Fawkes, Lauyon, Penley, Cambier

house, barn or tree was left standing in its path. It was accompanied by a terrible rainstorm and midnight darkness. : Eleven dead bodies have so far been disI covered, and it is known that at least five ! more were killed. Tho property damage will be large. The same storm passed over Adair county, lowa, doing unknown damage to life and property.