The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-05-26
SEINE RIPS PLATE
SINKS ship EGYPT
DISASTER OFF COAST Is
LAND OF USHANT
DENSE FOG THE CAUSE
Two American Women On Brit
ish Steamer Egypt, Are
Among Missing.
lAssociated press pispatch.l


Brest, May 22.-Mrs. M. L.
Sibley and Miss v. M. Boyer,
American missionaries on their
way to India were said today
by r. =. Bevan, the only other
American passenger, to have
been drowned in the wreck Of
the British steamship Egypt,
which was sunk off the Island
of Ushant Saturday night by a
collision with the French steam
er Seine. Nearly 100 other
passengers lost their lives ip
the disaster.
Brest, May 22.-Ninety- eight peer
son are missing and 242 were saved
of those who were on board the
British steamship Egypt when it
wa sunk off the Island of Ushant
Saturday night by, a collision with
the French steamer Seine, accord
ing to the latest figures.
Among those missing are two
American women, Mrs M. L. Sfbiey
and Miss V. M Boyer, whose home
addresses are unknown here. 1t is
possible 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 nine miles
from the scene and replied to the
distress signals with the assurance
that she was speeding to the spot.
Egypt Was Not Moving.
According to the Egypts purser
the ship f1oated only about twenty
minutes after her plates were crush
I'd IN hxy h. ed E~rrxyr l%<a
declares, was not moving at the
time of the accident, lying to on
account of the dense fog and sound
ing her sirene continuously
Suddenly there came the warning
shrek of the sirene of the Seine,
and the latter doomed up from the
fog and darkness and struck the
Egypt amidships.
With 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 per-
sons jumped overheard fearing to be
drawn down with the Egypt. There
was no one on board when the yes
sci took her nal plunge, it is be-
lieved
The purser estimated that fifteen
pdSSSuS0IS-@ tuH ~ Willie OlHCCAc
and fifty lascars of the crew were
missing.
Mrs. Sibley and Miss Boyer. were
missionaries on their way to India.
Americans Enroute For India
Boston. May .Z2.-Mrs- ". L. Sib-
ley and Miss " NJ. Boyer, the Am
crican women who are missing
from the British steamship Egypt,
sunk off the coast of France, were
bound for India who
had been in this city recently Mrs.
Sibley has relatives in Toledo, Ohio.
Miss Boyer. formerly made her
home at Aspinwall, Pennsylvania
Searching For Bodies
Tugs and small warcraft has been
searching the scene of the wreck
ever since the collision but no 9TH
er bodies in addition to those pick
ed up soon afterward were found
The Egypt went down in 400 feet
of water She carried 100000 in
gold. beside 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 surviv-
ors, however. that many of the 800
odd persons aboard were thrown in
to the sea or jumped from the
sinking ship when they were unable
to obtain places in the few life
boats that were lowered