Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST [ARTICLE]

SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST

By a Wreck Daring the Groat Storm tn Nova Scotia. The steamer Dorcas, with the barge Etta Stewart In tow, were lost off the Nova Scotia coast during the great storm of Tuesday night. The most reliable Information that can be obtained places the number of people on board at seventeen. The crew numbered twelve men, and the wife and four children of the chief engineer were also with him. Other veeeela are believed to have gone down.