The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-10
ON The REEFS.
Big Excursion Steamer Goes
Ashore on Bermuda.
She Had About 100 Passengers
on Board.
SHE is A TOTAL WRECK
Sailed From New York Saturday
for a Cruise
Among the Islands of the Carib-
'HE is A TOTAL WRECK
Among the Islands of the Carib-
bean Sea.


Quebec Steamship company's steamer
Aladina, Captain Frazer, which sailed
from New York on Saturday last for a
special cruise among the Caribbean ISL
ands with a party of excursionists, has
gone ashore ON the reefs off this island
and is likely to prove a total loss. Tugs
have left here in endeavors to rescue the
passengers.
The Madina is lying with a heavy
list and brOadside TO the wind on the
reef, one and a half miles northeast
OF North rock. The seas are breaking
over her.
The tug Gladisfen only succeeded in
getting within a mile of the Madina.
Efforts are being made to transfer the
latteEs passengers to the Gladisfen by
means of a life boat. A heavy sea is
running.
As this dispatch is sent one of the
tugs seems to have been able to ger
alongside the Madina. The weather is
moderatlng, but some hours must elapse
before it IS possible to obtain from the
passengers details of the disaster, as tile
spot where she went ashore is quite Il
distance from here. A heavy sea IS
still runing.
The Madina struck on the reef at 3
O'Clock this morning.
New York, Feb. ia E. Outerbridge
& Co, the local agents of the Quebec
Steamship company, have received cable
adVices from Hamilton confirming the
Associated Press report of the wreck of
the Madina. According to their advices
the ship is a total loss but no mention
is made of any loss OF life.
New York, Feb. 10.-The agents Of the
Quebec Steamship company have re
ceived cable dispatch saying that the
passengers are being taken from the
wrecked ship. So far as known thers
have been no casualties.
The steamer Madina was built in
: r14.r
burden. She is 344 feet s inches long,
has 80 feet, 4 inches beam, and is % feet
deep The steamer is owned by the
Quebec Steamship company and halls
from London.
The Madina has on board about 100
passengers. The list Of the passengers
follows.
NJ F. Bingham. Mrs. Bingham. Miss
Mary Bingham. Miss Jessie Bingham
all of Chicago; Alfred Baillod, New
York. Mrs. Edgar Bliss and Master
! Taylor H. Bliss, West Newton, Mass
Mrs. Fanny H. Barri, Springfield. Mass,
! Mrs. Harriet Brown, NeWt0nville, Mass ;
/ John B. Campbell and Mrs. Campbell,
New York; James K. Crofut. Hartford,
| Conn; John A Cook, Brooklyn; w. W.
/ Cheney, Hartford, Conn; Townsend
/ Church. Chicago; Rev. c. F. Dalrymple
I Oakland, Mass; r. A. Dexter and Mrs
4 Dexter, Springfield. Mass. Rev. E F.
Eagan, Seabright, n. j.; B. D. Field.
/ Belfast Me; Frank F. Lee Columbus
y
4 Walter Herrick Chicago: George H
Floyd, Dublin, N H; Thomas H. FaE
Boston; A w. Hart and Miss Hart
Brooklyn; w L. S. Jackson, New Ro-
chelIe n. Y; W Q. Johnston, Pittsburg
Pa. w. G. Gudhart. BToOklyn F. H
Jones, Buffalo; August Koch and Mrs
Koch, Williamsport, Pa; Miss James
W. Kirkham, Springfield. Mass: Viii
liam J. LOuderbach, Chicago; Mrs. c.
A. Lee, Philadelphia; Arthur F. Luke
and Mrs. Luke, New York; Mrs Lydia
H. Luke. West Newton. Mass; Otis "A
Luke, Boston: George Luppert and Mrs
Luppert, Wiliamsport, Pa; Daniel Muir
ply and Mrs. Murphy, Rochester, n. Y;
4 John Morrison, East Boston; Mrs. w j.
/ Maynard. New York; S L. Munson and
Mrs MunsOn, Albany; " B. Miller
/ Salisbury, Md; Rev. S. H. McCollister
4 D. D. Marlborough, n. F.; Mrs. Thomas
N1cKenna, Miss Elizabeth McKenna and
T. Morrison McKenna, PIttSburg; John
e. NIcKenna and Mrs. McKenna, St.
/ Louis; Mrs. Harriet McCarter. Boston;
ington, D. c.: H. W. Patterson and Mrs
/ Patterson. Wayland, Mass. n. B. Pres
ton, Hartford, Conn; r. e Pendleton
Mont Clair n. J.; James Parsons,
Brooklyn; Isaac B. Smith, Bos-
ton. Mrs Rich and Master Ralph
lyn, T. B Simpson and Mrs Simpson
/ Philadelphia; Benjamin Shepherd. New
ark N D.. John T. Stark and MrA
Stark. Nachua. n. H; Mrs Lille F
Seaver and Mrs. Harriet F. Seaver, New
York. Francis H. Smith. Washington
D G.; Miss Kate H. Stevens, North An
dover Mass; J. c. Thomas, Boston,
Alfred Truman. Mrs. Truman Brook.
vile. Pa; G. S. Tubbs and Mrs. Tubbs
Kirkwood, Ill; F. H. White, Belfast
Me; Brainard H. Warner and Mrs
Warner, Washington, D. c.