The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-06
DANGERS OF THE, SEA.
THE LOSS OF THE IRON SHIP "BRIFIsa AID
MlRAL' IN THE PACIFIC, WIcH SEVEN
ttt2 TY-NINE LIVES. 3E7ITi61
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY LIVES u ST BY "A COILS.
ION IN THE SEA OF MARMoRA

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TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY LIVES Il ST nv a coI1Is
! ION IN THE SEA OF MARMoRAs
! News was some days since published of terri
Bile ship dsast ter resulting in the loss of seventy
nine lives, which occurred at Kings Island early
on the morning of the 23rd of May. The Mel
bourne argus Of the 18th of June gives the follow
Ing particulars 1.-THE ship British Admiral,
bound from Live rpool 10 Melbourne, left the tor.
mer port on the 23rd e February. and, after a
| long and tedious passage Of eightyanine DAYS.
arrived in Bass straits. All went. we'll until an
early hour on the 23rd ultimo, when the man on
| the forecastle sang odt, Breakers ahead I, The
ship was under eaiI at the time, andthe weather
was very stormy. All hands were ordered on
deck, and cor mand given by the first otfic.
er to make more sail bat before this could be
done the ship struck on one of namerons reefs
which skirt Kings Island, short distance from.
the scene of the wreck OF the ill-fated Netherby
she bumped once or twice and then began TO set
Tie down, and in a short time she was at the
mercy OF the waves. The sea made Glenn breaches
over her, and 1t was not long before the vessel
went to pieces. Out of the eightv-eight sonls q,
board, only nine reached the shore. which vas
distant about six.miles. Among those who
persisted were Captain Taylor, the first Second
and Fourth Officers. and VIM Nicholson. q son Of
the late Hon. VIM. Nicholson. The survivors.
after undergoing two days privation and cold,
were discovered by some sealers on the island
and were Hospitality treated. The ships pane,
came ashore in the Captain box and were saved
put there was not sign of the vessel TWO da "
after the wreck. The nine survivors arrived in
melbourne In the betch Kangaroo, and were taken
10 Inc sailors Home. where they will be looked
aiter lof the present On Tl ursday the bodies Of
Inc following were washed ashore identified and
ourled Matilda Dale, yonng girl about II years
old Mrs. Blackbourne, Mrs. Mills, Mrs Thomas
Helen Hays, Mary Comfy and William Dyer,
Pierce On Friday the body Of Mary Tanchey wa .
found damned in the rocks, and, from it's position
could not be extricated. She was coming out to
her father und mother who are said to be keeping
u public House in West Melbourne. The British
Admiral was q new iron ship, of 1851 tons regis
ter, and this was her first voyage Her cargo con-
sisted principally Of raiway-iron, spirits and salt.
Large quantities Of the goods are strewn along the
| beach,
THE FATAL COLLISION IN THE SEA OF MARMoRA.
Particulars of this disaster, of which we have
already heard briefly by telegraph, are given in
the LegoHt Herald of the oath of June '.The
Azizleh oompanY's steamer Kars, Captain Con-
stanti, which lett Constantinople on Friday after
noon with passengers and merchandise for Salon
ica was run into and sunk shortly after midnight
In the Sea of Aormora, by the incoming Egyptian
steamer Behera, CAPTAIN Lcva. The sinking of
the vessel has been attended with the loss OF fully
ESQ lives. TIE Kars had about 800 passengers and
crew Oh board, and of these only thirty-seven are
known to be saved. Captain Constant Cephalia
aud all the officers on thysLnken vessel have per-
1shed, but we have obtained the following particu
lars, which we havereason to believe are suhetan-
italy accurate The Egyp:isn.steamer Behera, Can
tain Antonio Leya, on its way from Alexandria to
The BJsphorus, when, at about o'clock on Satur-
day, while some two miles the other side of the
Island of Mormora, the lookout observed the light
of an outwardbound vessel bearing down upon the
| Behera. Captain LeYa at once sock N measures to
avoid a collision, but the Kars is said to have been
manenvred SO unskillfully as to have been placed
athwart the COVE of the Behera, and although the
latters engines were reversed, collision Dec ON
| ineytabe-the Kars was cut IN two amidships, as
| If by gigantic Ratchet and sunk in t. n minutes
The Kars was large old steamer, and the Behera
one of the finest iron steamers of the Khedivie
mail fleet. The Egyptian vessel diseneageG herself
speedily from the sinking Kars and sent boats to
pick up number of people who were hoatn g
about on barrels, spars, snd such like. few clso
reached the Behera in one II the Ear's boats ::
and In all, thirty-seven of the passengers of the
Inflated vessel were saved. Nearly all the women
persisted. Tie Kars had considerable sum in
money-groups on board, and these and her mer-
chandise were insured In the Lyons and G ironde
companies for an aggregate sum of abaut so ,OOs
francs (e3 200 sterltng). The Behera herself sus-
tanned some damage by the collision