The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1873-03-08 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

DREADFUL COLLISION AT SEA.  Particulars were forthcoming on Monday of the collisio! which on Saturday we reported had occurred about I'l miles off the Great Ormes Head that morning, betweeli the Dublin and Liverpool Screw Steamship Compare steamer Torch and the ship Chicabuco, owned by Mess' Belfour and Williamson, Liverpool. The steamer was °I) her passage from Liverpool to Dublin, and the ship vol homeward bound from San Francisco with grain. Alva half past two o'clock in the morning both vessels carve, into violent collision during a snowstorm. The ship was 01 down to the water's edge, and sank in about threi; minutes. Twenty-four out of 27 persons on boar perished. The only persons saved were August Arder; druo, first mate; Thomas Adamson, apprentice; Antonio Phare, seaman. They clung to some of 00 floating wreckage, and were picked up in about 2t:/ minutes by the Liverpool steam-tug Guiding Stara The steamer was also seriously damaged, 50 was u the Guiding Star and the atear g 0; After by terthe Torch had been towed aboll' half-taßa-dozen to miles, it was found hopeless to try t° keep her afloat, and the master, Captain Cello, the crew, and one passenger were safely transferred to the tug- boat Guiding Star. A cattle drover named Janie,: Logan had, however, to be left on board. He had bee i : n his berth in the forecastle and was hemmed in' b.) the bent iron plates, so that he could not be wail' ca:ted. The steamer quickly sank, carrying him doll with her. The Chicabuco was under the command ° Captain William Ritchie, of Peterhead, and was vessel of 999 tons. Among those who perished wit: the Chicabuco were four seamen who were coining hen' in the vessel from San Francisco, having been saveil frol° the wreck of the Aculeo. A Liverpool pilot was ale among those lost. An official investigation will 17° held respecting the collision. Large quantities of wreei‘, age are being washed ashore.  A THREATENING LErrFirt.—At Hammersmith, on Sate day, Samuel Cook,. a shipwright, appeared to answer]: summons for sending a threatening letter to Mrs. go, Marshal, of Notting-hill, in which he demanded mond; The complainant said the defendant called himself I3e, brother, but she never remembered at any time bell': brought up with him. Mr. Ingham read the followifg letter, which had been sent to her, dated February 1873, and addressed "Sister Mary." It said :—" I .813f°„"r come again to see you. Has it ever occurred to I°lo mind that you are a murderer? If you take your 13IP' look at the lit Epistle of John, 3ul chapter, 15th There you will see that whoever hateth his brother jo murderer. What would it harm you if you were to 1105 a little _sympathy towards your mother, brothers, If sisters? Look at me. I have seven little children, ant: r find it very hard at times to live. It is no pleasure On me to come to see you, but you know what will 10°4 me away." The defendant told the magistrate that P„ never asked her for any money except once. She had.if aged mother, nearly 90 years of age, and she was tamed by him and his brothels, who were very P el The complainant said the defendant asked him for ineo for himself. The defendant Wilo remanded.  ac rib Ce. Pa  ac( Ac irt off 4111  be co' we  lia4 dii WI 0