Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The British 'steamer Bcllerophon has in collision’with an*l Inis sunk the French steamer Kraile Selsisb at the entrance of the harbor at Algiers. Thirty (Wsseitders of the Emile Ncfsise,; including twciity-five natives, were drowned. .The large three-masted vessel seen on *Triwaß«y fly la Ivingstowht Bay. Ireland.-turns out to he the Russian hark Palme, Captain Eriksen, from Liverpool, Daf: 18, Lor Mobile, Ala. As cabled at the time, n lifeboat which went to her assistance was capsized and her crew of sixteen men were drowned, and a second lifeboat which attelnpted to assist the Palme also capsized and returned to the shore wilij. the greatest ilif sticnlty. The crew of the Palme cut away her masts, and eventually all on board, eighteen souls in all. were rescued by a passing steamer. The rescued people included the captain's wife and child. The British ship Moresby, Capt. Coombqr, was stranded Monday off the Bnllinacourt's lighthouse, near I) mi gar yen. Ireland, about a mile and a half from the shore. Her crew, numbering thirty-six men, were lashed to her rigging throughout the night, and it whs feared they would perish, as the sea was so heavy as to render it impossible for a lifeboat to live for any length of time. After dayiiglit Tuesday znonftSg a lifelioat managed to reach the ship and took off nineteen of tlie imperiled seamen. The vessel was breaking up wiien tlie lifeboat was ' compelled to leave her and went to pieces shortly afterward, the remaining seventeen members of ~tlie crew, going down with her. A large three-masted vessel was seen flying signals of distress in Kingstown Bay. A lifeboat which went to her assistance Was capsized and crew of sixteen' men, were drowned. A second lifeboat which st acted for tha rescue was also overturned, but the crew managed to cling to the boat, which was, finally righted. The fate of the threemaster is not known.