The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-05-26
GREAT SHIP SINKS;
HUNDRED PERISH
Steamers Collide in Heavy Fog
Off Brittany Coast.
MANY OFFICIALS ARE LOST
Reports Say Twenty Bodies Have Been
Recovered-Confusion in Signals
During Fog Causes Crash Near
Brest-Few Rescued.

Brest, May 22.-Ninety- eight per-
sons are missing and ~ were saved
OF those who were ON board the Brit
ish Peninsular and Oriental liner
Egypt, 1900 tons, bound from London
to Bombay, when it was sunk off the
island of UShant in dense fog by a
collision with the French cargo steam
cial figures.
Among those missing are two Ameri-
can missionaries, Mrs. M L. Sibley
and Miss V. M Boyer, who were on
their way to India. r. f. Bevan, the
only other American passenger, said
that they were drowned.
Half a dozen lifeDoats were low
cred by the Seine and they circled for
hours near the scene of the collision,
but the thick fog cloud badly impeded
the rescue work and the Seine finally
turned toward Brest, giving up as
hopeless the task of further "escues in
the prevailing weather.
Prominent Men Lost.
The Seine sped toward Brest after
receiving wireless messages tina other
craft were Fastening to the scene ann
would sarch for other possible sur
vivors and for Othe bodies.
In the steamers first cabin were
many prominent government officials
and British army officers going to
their posts. Many oe these are thought
to have been drowned.
The passenger list contained the
names of women and children Of the
families Of these government officials
and army omcers, some of whom are
among the dead.
Reports thus far received are vague
as to how the collision occurred, as
the area In which it happened has al
ways had terror for seamen. The
treacherous character Of the coast and
the almost constant succession of
heavy fOgs have made the ocean in
that space a hazardous course.
Ushant, near which the crash oc-
Cured, is 10 miles from the mainland.
The coast nearby is strewn with
wrecks that have pounded on the
rocks or have been victims of col
nsions similar to this catastrophe.
Marine men say that the Egypt must
have suffered tremendous wrenching
in the collision and probably went
down so quickly that there was little.
If any, opportunity for the launching
of her own lifeboats.
The Egypt had tonnage of 7.491
and was regarded as one of the beauty
n
line She carried in her career many
thousands of officials and officers and
their families to and from England
and India.
Was Steel Steamer.
The Egypt was steel boat built
by Card & Co. in 1897 at Greenock
It was owned, by the Peninsular &
Oriental Steam Navigation company
and registered under the British flag.
The vessel was 500 feet long and "a
feet wide and had a draft of "a feet.
The Seine is a steel built and
registered 1888 tons. 1t was built in
1899 by w. Dobson & Co., Newcastle,
and registered under the French flag.
Its length is '236 feet, width "a feet
and depth Is feet. Both vessels were
equipped with electric lights and wire
less outfits.
A little over two years ago the
American steamship Rock Island
Bridge cOllided with another vessel
within a few miles of the place where
the Egypt and the Seine came to-
gether. No loss of life was reported.
Both vessels made port.