Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-28
SHIP STRIKES MINE.
Liner Maloja Soon sinks-Reseue Ship
Also Destroyed.

l. Dover, Feb 28.-More than 100 lives
were lost when the steamship Maloja.
belonging to the Peninsular and
Oriental line struck mine and sank
within a half hour two miles of Dover
yesterday.
! The LONDON Times estimated the
dead at 147, of whom 1T were Lascars,
members Of the crew.
The Maloja left Tilbury on yesterday
for Bombay with mails, 119. passengers
Of all classes aboard and crew num-
bering about 200, most of them Las
cars.
The ship had Just left Dover and
was opposite Shakespeare Clin when
an explosion shook her from end to
end She listed Immediately to port.
E High seas were running and the
captain, realizing that great damage
had been, done to the after part of his
vessel tried to run her aground but the
engine room was swamped and the
ship became unmanageable.
Rescue Vessel Sings.
The plight OF the vessel was OBJ
served and Sdoxens of craft went at
fun speed to het rescue. One of them,
the British tasiker Empress Of Fort
William, Of 2.1B1 toms. struck another
mine ana sank nsa1by. L.
n Aboard the Ma1atasaaEerything pos
ssible.was done TO get the passengers
and crew OF: IN the boats had NJ.
reads been swung oait before she
struck, &SgsA precHuti lon asHi inst Accis
dent and all those aboard had suffi-
lcfent time to put On life belts, instruc-
ton in the use Of which had been
given the previous evening.
Boat after. boat and a number OF
RATS were sent away but several per-
sons leaped into the water and were
picked up by the surrounding craft
h It was at first thought that all had
been, saved but later, bodies were
washed ashore and their number was
to during the day.
Owing to the fact that Dover Is
under strict militory law, It was pos,
sible to obtain only meager details
from those rescued. The captain said
that both passengers and crew be-
haved splendidly
The passengers were for the most
part British officials in the Indian SER
vice. the most prominent being Judge
oldf1eld Of the Indian high court.
* Up to midnight the bodies landed
from the Ma1oja included eighteen
men. eleven women and four children,
in addition to eleven Lascars. Among
the dead is Mrs. Mcleod, wife Of Gen.
eral Mcleod.
i. Disaster at 10: 80.
It was about 10:s0 in the morning
that the disaster occurred. The Maloja
was steaming down the channel, chill
dren playing on the deck and most Of
the passengers carrying life belts in
their hands.
Suddenly terrific explosion blew in
the side Of the second saloon, and
twenty minutes later the Maloja sank.
Just before she went to the bottom
few seconds the keel was visible above
,r,esses. there was second explosion,
righted herself, that masts became
visible, and then she went down.
The captain and officers stuck by
saved, not one Of them left the ship
of the water.
People Unusually Calm.
fNThe captain from the bridge d.
TSCLeu Tie IoWcIllS VI tuc UOdlS anu
called to everybody to keep calm, for
the scene Immediately after the ex-
plosion was one sufficiently terrifying
to cause a panic.
Several children were blown to
pieces and the deck was covered with
wreckage and wounded but there was
no sign OF a panic.
Only few boats could be lowered
J. = - ~
work difficult. The majority of those
saved were on RATS, Of which the ship
carried large number. Most OF the
women and children lost their lives
owing to the fact that one boat already
in the water drifted under another
which was being lowered and capsized.
HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK.