Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1898 — OBSTRUCTED BY WRECKAGE. [ARTICLE]

OBSTRUCTED BY WRECKAGE.

Passengers on the La Huurgugue Unable to Get at Life Boats— Total Drowned, 5416. New York, July 8. —A telegram was received at the French line office Thursday stating that the survivors of La Bourgogne would arrive in Boston by boat at seven o’clock Friday morning. They will probably come on to New York by rail. One of the agenta of the line will go to Boston. Acting General Manager Paul Faguet gave out Thursday the following list of the lost: First cabin, 88; second cabin, 113; steerage, 246; officers and crew, 118. Total, 565. A telegram was received from Halifax by M. Faguet from S. Cunard A Co., which stated that the wreckage on board La Bourgogne proved to be such an obstruction that the passengers and crew were unable to reach the starboard lifeboats.