The New York herald., 1922-05-22
Liner SINKS IN CRASH
Off FRANCE, 100 die;
| AMERICANS missing
p. and @. Steamship Goes
Down Quickly in Fog
Near Ushant.
TEN PASSENGERS LOST
Mrs. NJ. L. Sibley, Miss V. NJ.
Boyer, From U. S., Not
Accounted For.
CREW FILLS LIFEBOATS
Indian Sailors Accused as
Freighter Rams the Egypt
Amidships.
CREW FILLS LIFEB0ATS

BREsr, France, May 81 ASSOCIATED
Press) Nearly a hundred persons
perished last night when the PENN.
sular and Oriental Line steamship
Egypt, of 5000 tons, sank off the
island OF Ushant after collision with
the French freight steamship Seine.
bound for Havre.
IA dispatch from London says the
Peninsular and Oriental Steamship
Company office there announced that
only thirty-eight passengers had sailed
on the Egypt and gave out a list Of
the names of twenty-eight of these
passengers who were rescued and
landed at Brest.1
II was said late tonight that there
might be more survivors Of the dis.
aster, since>the steamship Cap Iracoa
was nine miles away at the time OF
the collision and hurried to the spot
and may have picked up some OF
those in the water who were missed
by the small boats Of the Seine.
1t was also learned late tonight
that the Seine brought in four bodies
and that the tugs vaillante and Can.
noniere landed twenty-five.
Two American women. Mrs. M. L.
Sibley and Miss v. NJ. Boyer, were on
board the Egypt and are missing, &C.
cording to the Peninsular and Orien-
tai Line officials Their home adj
dresses. are not known to the COM
pany. r. F. Bevan, another Ameri.
can, was saved.
The Egypt sailed from London for
Bombay Friday with passengers and
a crew of 800 A roll call on board
the Seine after the disaster showed
that at least eighty of the crew were
missing.
Collision I'm Fog.
TIE collision occurred during dense
fog within twenty-five miles of the
Armen lighthouse. The dinner gong
was about TO be sounded Many of tbs
passengers and most of the crew were
on deck. The shock threw persons
into the sea; others jumped and
number went down with the ship.
which sank in twenty minutes. The
Egypt was rammed amidships on the
port side.
The Seine, badly damaged, reached
Brest to-day with twenty-nine rescued
~ he
and the bodies of twenty dead. The
captain OF the Egypt Is among the
saved.
When the collision occurred there
was a rolling sea. Some of those res
cued charge that the Indian sailors
ON board the Egypt took to the life
boats Immediately the vessels crashed.
so that large number of the pas
sengers and crew had to shift for
themselves. Those who jumped into
the sea and who could swim scrambled
about for bits of wreckage 60 which
they might cling. Many of these were
rescued. They foated about in the
fog after the Egypt went down. calling
for help. The sound Of their voices
directed members OF tho crew OF the
Seine in small boats who were pa
trolling the sea, picking up both live
ing and dead.
In some instances the rescue crews
came upon persons clinging to bits Of
debris who let so and sank Just as
aid for them was at hand. The small
boats on numerous occasions sought
vainly In the fog to locate persons
lifting cries OF distress. Among the
known missing are the doctor and
CHIEF engineer OF the Egypt.
Captain Tells of Disaster.
Capt. lie Parzic OF the Seine In de-
scribing the disaster said: II was at
my post on the upper bridge Saturday
evening at Z o'clock. fifteen miles from
Armen Light. The sea was calm. with
n slight swell. The fog was very dense.
l was listening for fog horns and pro-
ceeding at five knots.
I'm less time than II takes to teil \
great steamer emerged from the fog.
II struck my ship and tore away the
forward works and moved on at great
speed. 1 Immediately ordered our en-
gines reversed
II saw nothing further. But then 7
began 20 hear cries OF horror that told
me OF catastrOpne. 4 went IN searcn
of the stricken vessel IN the fog and
darkness. j found her in twenty min
uter
she lay on her port side, ready 20
turn over Water was pouring into
long. deep tear In her side plates. Cries
and walls of despair were TO be heard
coming from the steamer. Passengers
were seen running about on the decks. ~
the vessel was about TO go under.
Il saw p man throw himself into the
sea with two little children In his arms.
The shlpwrecked people In the sea clung
to floating debris. / had all my life-
boats lowered. II was particularly
perilous work. for we were on che main
path OF vessels going from the open
sea TO the English Channel. I stayed