The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-25
MISSION WORKERS
DIE IN DISASTER
American Women on Way
to Mission Work in
India Victims.
NINETY EIGHT MISSING
Reports of Disaster Show He
Toism of Crew as British
Steamer Sinks.

l Brest, France-Mrs. NJ r. Sibley and
Miss v. M. Boyer, American mission
aries on their way to India, we're said
today by R. F. Bevan, the only other
| American passenger to have been
| drowned in the wreck of the British
Ysteans iaip Egypt" which sank off the
Island Of Ushant Saturday night in a
4 collision with the French steamer
Seine" Nearly 100 other passengers
lost their lives in the disaster.
/ Ninety-eight persons are missing and
242 were saved of those who were on
beard the Egypt" when it went down,
according to latest official figures.
Among those missing are the two
American women, Mrs. M. l.. Sibley
and Miss v. M. Boyer, whose home adj
dresses are unknown here. 1t is pos
sible that some Of the missing may
have been picked up by the steamship
cap Iracon" in addition to those
brought here by the Seine" The "Cap
Iracon" was miles from the scene
and replied to the distress signals with
the assurance that she was speeding
+, to the spot
/ FIoated Only Twenty Minutes.
According to the Egypt's purser, the
ship fioatedr only about 20 minutes af-
ter her plates were crushed in by the
Seine. The Egypt, he declares, was not
moving at the time of the accident,
lying to on account of dense fog and
sounding her siren continuously.
/ Suddely there came the warning
shrek of the siren on the Seine and
the latter doomed up out of the fog
| and darkness and struck the Egypt
amidship. With the crash there came
a terrible confusion On the stricken
vessel. Four or five boats were all
that could be lowered, because of the
list of the vessel, and many persons
| jumped overheard fearing to be drawn
down with the Egypt There was no
one on board when the vessel took her
final plunge, he believed. The purser
estimated that Is passengers, 80 white
officers and so Lascars Of the crew
were missing. Mrs. Sibley and Miss
Boyer were missionaries on their way
to India.
Eas7 Missionaries Bound for India.
Boston, Mass-Mrs. M. l.. Sibley ard
Miss V. M. Boyer, the American wom-
en- who are missing from the British
steamship Egypt, sunk off the coast of
France, were missionaries bound for
India who had been in this city recent
| ly. Mrs. Sibley, q member of the staff
OF the American board of commerce fox
foreign missions, has relatives in To-
ledo, Ohio. Miss Boyer, who formerly
made her home at Aspinwall, Pa. was
going out as teacher in a school for
missionary children and others in
South India. Mrs, Sibley was widow
somewhat beyond middle years return
ing to her station in the city of Way.
I.Miss Boyer, with no parents or rela-
tives alive, was taking up work in the
mission field for the first time, after
several years absence from India. Miss
Boyer was graduated recently from
| Brennan College at Gainesville, Ga. She
had gone there after several years
service with the American Lutheran
mission at their Rajahrdrumndy mis-
sion and after year at the Koda
school to which she was rturning.
Was Lutheran Missionary.
Pittsburgh, Pa.-Miss Virginia Boy
er, reorted missing after the liner
Egypt went down off the coast of
France last Saturday night, was a
Lutheran missionary returning to In
dia after furlough spent. in Pitts
burgh. Miss Boyer was an orphan who
had been reared in the Lutheran or
phans' home near here and later be-
came nurse in Passavant hospital.
Her station in India was Rahmundry.
Her latest visit to this country was
occasioned by i'll health.
Search for Bodies Continues.
Brest.-Tugs and small war craft
have been searching the scene of the
wreck ever since the collision, but no
other bodies in~addition to those picked
up soon after had been found up to
this afternoon. The Egypt went down
in 400 feet of water She carried
100000 in gold besides a consignment
of mail for India. So far one mail
pouch has been picked up, but nothing
else except the wreckage from the
crash was found on the surface. The
| ships officers did not even save the
vessels papers. It is not questioned
by most of the survivors, however, that
many Of the 800 cdd persons aboard
were thrown into the sea or jumped
from the sinking ship when they were
unable to obtain places in the few life
boats that We're lowered.
/ Goes Down On Duty.
Chief Wireless Operator Harwick
went down with the ship, sending out
calls for help until the boat went nm
der. His steadfastness spread the news
of the disaster among the vessels in
that vicinity, several Of which reached
the scene within short time, but too
late, so far as known to find anyone
living. The small boats sent from
Brest in response to the S. 0. S. calls
brought in only a score of dead.
Passengers said the ropes at the end
of one Of the life boats broke as it was
being lowered after the collision,
dumping all those in it into the sea.
Then the ropes at the other end broke,
the life boat failing on those who had
counted upon it for escape.
Several of the Egypt's officers when
they saw it was impossible to launch
4 more of the boats eut fho rnDaS Of