The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-08-10
Bishop Of Sac Pedro, Brazil, Among
the Lost, and Another Bishop
Reported Among the
Missing.
CAPTAIN KILLED HIMSELF
STRUCK ON TIE ROCKS OF HER.
MlGOS ISLAND.
rhe Vessel Began to Settle Rapidly,
and a Terrible Scene of Confu-
sion and Panic Ensued.

Cartagend, Spain, - A terri
BILE marine disaster occurred Saturday
evening off Cape Palos. The Italian
Steamship Sirio, from Genoa for Bar
celona, Cadiz, Montevideo and Buenos
Ayres, with about 500 persons on
board, was wrecked off Hermigas ISL
and.
Three hundred and eighty-five, most
of them Italians and Spaniards, were
drowned.
The captain of the steamer com
mitted suicide.
The bishop of Sac Pedro, Brazil,
also was lost, and it is reported that
another 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 a pitiable condi-
ton, being without food OF clothing.
Struck a Rocky Reef.
The Sirio struck a rocky reef known
as Bajos Hormigas, and sank soon
after, stern first. Hormigas island lies
about 2k miles to the eastward of
Cape Palos.
The Sirio was owned by the Navi.
gazon Italiana of Genoa.
Before he committed suicide the
captain declared the steamer had GAS
passengers on board, and that her
crew numbered 1877 men. The Sirio
had $40 passengers when leaving &c.
noa, but additional Spanish passengers
were taken on board at Barcelona,
where the vessel touched a few hours
before the disaster.
The disaster ACQUIRED at five O'Clock
Saturday afternoon. The steamer was
threading a difficult passage through
the Hormigas group, where the Bajos
Hormigas reef is a continual menace
to navigation. The vessel began to
settle rapidly Immediately after she
had struck, and a terrible scene OF
confusion and panic ensued on board
The fishermen along the coast sought
to render every assistance in their
power, and sent out boats, which
brought many survivors ashore. Mos
of the officers and crew of the Sirio
are among the saved.
narrowing Scenes Enacted.
The survivors have gone into CAM
on the main square of the town a
Cape Palos. Here narrowing scenes
are enacted, as the stricken families
a%nxiously seek beloved members
among the rescued. A mother whit
lost her three children went insane.
The doctor of the Sirio gave up hi
wife and child as lost, but they wer,
finally brought in by n of the res
cuing boats, and the scene as thi,
family was reunited was most affect
ing.
One Of the boats sent out by tn,
fishermen brought in "a passengers.
The condition of the survivors l
most deplorable. They have los
everything, and are without money
food or clothing. The maratime al
thorities of Cartagena have dispatches
a tug to the scene, carrying relief SUI
, plies. The buildings of a circus an
, the poorhouse are being used as ten
porary quarters for the survivors.
, The latest reports from the capt sa
that three boats have just brought 1
4 a number of rescued.
q An additional sadness is added I
the catastrophe owing to the fact ths
y "a number Of fishermen who were col
Quoting rescuing operations wer
r drowned in consequence of the owe
, turning Of a boat.
r The captain Of the Sirio, just b
/ fore he killed himself, attributed tn
wreck to his own imprudence.
1t. is said that a large number of tn
first and second cabin passengers wer
@ drowned.
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