The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-20
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IRE DROWNED
uf| ST |MAL0I
Steamer Strikes a Rock
and. Sinks Near French
Coast.
SHIP APPARENTLY
MISSED HER COURSE.
AFTER Being Greatly Delayed BY
Fog the Hilda Runs Into
Snow Storm.
Five PASSENGERS AND
ONE OF CREW RESCUED
Most Of the Passengers and Crew
Were Sleeping at the Time Of @
Accident-Many Bodies
Washed Ashore. ss
Very Meagre
Details.
After Being Greatly Delayed BY
Fog the Hilda Runs Into
Snow Storm.
FIVE PASSENGERS AND
ONE OF CREW RESCUED

LONDON, November 1e.-The cross.
channel steamer lllda, from southamp.
ton for st. Maio, struck a rock and sank
off the French coast this morning. ls
One hundred and twenty thrse lives
were lost. Five persons were saved.
1 (By Associated Press.y IA +
LONDON, Nov. 1s--The Southwestern
Railways cross channel steamer IIida
was wrecked this morning Off st. NJ alo,S
I on the north coast OF France, and 1T 10
& belleved tina one hundred y or more or
her passengers and crew were drownes..
The Hilda left Southampton rrlday for
st. Malo with considerably more than one
hundred souls on board. Her passage was
greatly delayed by a foE In the channel,
and, when nearing st. Malo, she ran into
a severe snow storm, apparently missed
her course, and lfoundered on the rocks
off Jardin ghthouse, three mi .es from,
ST. N1alo.
The. conpany's steamer. Ada. N Oh twuru3
bound bound from ST, Malo. rescued i've OF the
!, passengers and one OF the crew These
are now ION their way to Southampton
=, l,heresi san unconflrmed report that ser-5
Henty Had been saved. ss3i II T sts
The crew numbered sjt wenty-six, n ana
there were about a hundred passengers,
al Frenchmen. the majority being cnion5
dealers from ST. Briae and neighborhood 4.
a telegram from st. Servlan, adjoining
the town8of ST. Malo, gives 1 he few par
3ticulars yet available The EIilda was
near ST, Malo Saturday morning. She
struck the rocks att O'Clock Sunday
morning In the roadstead OF the island
Of Cezeembre, having missed the >de,
owing to bad weather and fog. 55jS88
9 The majority OF the crew and pas
sengers were asleep at the time. NV 4
boats We're lowered, one (which con-
tanning Ave men. arrived at st. Servian.
The second boat was picked up empty
at St Cast, where thirteen bodies were
washed ashore. The top of the IIlda's
funnel and her mast are visible at low
tide, according to the telegram from ST.,
Servian. 654
The Hllda was built at Glasgow In 1SS2.
and registered s4S tons. She was a screw
steamer, of iron construction, and was
235 feet in length
Prominent People Aboard
The exact number Of lives lost on the
.1Ii'da Is unknown here. 1t Is understood
that there were about twenty frst-class
passengers including several English peo-
BILE. Among the latter were the Hon.
Mrs. Butler, slster-in-aw OF Lord Lanes
borough and Colonel Follett Though lit
ls not certain that these were actually
Or board. they were expected to travel
by the lIllda. and 1t is known that all the
first-class passengers We're drowned.
These passengers We're English officers
and others who were coming to rejola
tl,cir families or to spend the season ae
st. ialo and Dinard, opposite st. Malo. 4
1t appears to be certain that only six
were saved, these being five onion sellers
and all English seaman named Grintcr,
belonging. to Guernsey and that the to-
tai OH board. Including the crew. nunr-
bered l05.
The delay In the arrival OF the Hlda
at first inspired little anxiety. as there
was dreadful weat ther In the channel, and
as everyone had full confidence In her
captain, Gregory. Tie had known the
dangerous coast of Brittany for thirty,
years
The disaster was first suspected through
the washing ashore OF a body, and tho
port authorities sent out tug. 1t was
then learned that tho llllda was wrecked
OF, n treacherous reef close to the island
of Cezambre, called Les I'ortes' She
had apparently struck, broken her back
ana Immediately sunk leaving no time
to launch boats. The Jardtp Light is Y.
quite close to the spot. 1t cannot yet Sba
explained at what time or how the dis
,'ter occurred. The entrance to ST.. Malo
is dangerous, The currents and rocks
needing the exercise of considerable cau-
tion at all times but more especially
in bad weather
Many bodies have been washed ashore
at different points, some wearing life
belts. Six of the survivors. according tc
n report In circulation here, We're res. b
cued by the Ada from the rigging.
Six Are Saved.
The Southwestern Railway Company
is yet unable to give list of the liildas
pa ssengeys, but they say that a score
booked passage at stations between
London and Southampton and that to
the best of their knwledge nineg-nine
were drowned and only six saved
The company is SIN without reliable
details .,s To how the disaster happened
It's agent at ST. Malo only briefly res
ported. '"rhe Ada has put back and rcs
ports the Hlda Is Il total wreck AT Les
Portes reef outside Jardln lighthouse,
The Ada's boat saved five unknown men
and a seaman named G'inter out OF the
rigging, They appear to be the only
furyiyors"