Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — THIRTEEN HUNDRED DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

THIRTEEN HUNDRED DROWNED.

I<ate*t Concerning th* Sinking of * Brazilian Transport. The London Morning Leader of Nov. 3, has the following special from Lisbon: “A private telegram from Buenos Ayres says that the insurgent war ship Republlca ran into and sunk the transport Rio de Janeiro, which was on her way from Rio Grande do Sul to Rio de Janeiro with troops for President Peixoto. Thirteen Hundred of the troops were drowned.” A dispatch to the Times from Rio de Janeiro received on Nov. 1. contained the information that the Republics had ismmed the Rio de Janeiro, and thatSCO out of 1.100 troops on board were drowned. This dispatch also said that Admiral Mello confirmed the truth of this report