The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-08-10
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TERRIBLE MARINE DISASTER OF
CAPE PAL0S, SPAIN.
The Italian Steam ship sirio Wrecked
and Hundreds of italian and Span.
ish Emigrants Were Drowned
Captain Committed Suicide--Fisher
men Rescue Survivors.

BILE marine disaster occurred SUNDAY
evening off Cape Palos. The Italian
steamship Sirio, from Genoa for Bar
celona, .Cadiz, Montevideo and Buenos
Ayres, with about 800 persons on
board was wrecked off Hormigas is
land. Three hundred emigrants, most
of them Italians and Spaniards, were
drowned.
The captain of the steamer commit
ted suicide.
The bishop of San Pedro, Brazil,
was lost, and it is reported that an
other bishop is among the missing.
The remainder of the passengers
and the officers and crew got away in
the ships boats or were rescued by
means of boats sent to them from the
shore.
A number of fishermen who made
attempts at rescue were drowned.
Those rescued from the vessel are
now at Cape Palos in pitiable condi
ton, being without food or clothing.
The Sirio struck a rocky reef known
as Bajos Hormigas and sank soor
afterward, stern first. Hormigas Is
land lies about two and half miles
to the eastward of Cape Palos.
| The Sirio was owned by the Nav1
gaziono Italiana of Genoa.
| Before he committed suicide the
captain declared the steamer had GAL
passengers on board, and that he
crew numbered 127 men. The Sirit
had $40 passengers when leaving Gen
GA, but additional Spanish passenger
were taken on board at Barcelona
where the vessel touched few hours
before the disaster.
| Reef Continental Menace.
The disaster occurred at 5 o'clocl
in the afternoon. The steamer wa
threading a difficult passage through
the Hormigas group, where the Bajo
Mormigas reef is a continual menac
to navigation.
The vessel began to settle immed
ately after she had struck and ser
sational scene of panic ensued on tn
vessel. The fishermen along the coas
sought to render every assistance an
sent out boats, which brought man
survivors ashore. Most of the officer
and crew of the Sirio are among tn
saved. The survivors have gone int
camp on the main square of the tow
at Palos. Narrowing scenes are Ell
acted as the stricken families AM
iously seek beloved ones among tn
rescued. A mother who lost her tire
children went insane. The doctor {
the Sirio gave up his wife and chill
as lost, but they were finally brough
in by one of the rescuing boats, an
the scene as this family was reunite
was most affecting. One of the boat
sent out by the fishermen brought
AZ passengers.
In DepIorabIe Condition.
The condition of the survivors
most deplorable. They have lost e.
erything, and are without food {
clothing. The military authorities {
Cartagena have dispatched tug
the scene carrying relief supple
The buildings of circus and poo
house are being used as Temporal
quarters for the survivors.
In addition sadness is added to til
catastrophe owing to the fact that
number of fishermen who were CO.
Quoting rescuing operations wei
drowned in consequence of the owe
turning of boat.
} The captain Of the Sirio just befol
, he committed suicide attributed IL
wreck to his own imprudence.
All the ships books were lost.
is impossible at present to ascertai
the full extent of the disaster. Min
tenths of the passengers were Its
ians. and the remainder Spaniards.