The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-01-21 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

IASITALTIES AT SEA.  WYE IN DROWNED. were lost off Dar`mouth Harbour on evening by the upsetting of a boardiig to Messrs. Fox, Sons, and Co., a of that port. The captain of the Lque Thekla, which bad called off the tor provisions, had been put on board which then took off the barque a Coaker' in order to put him on board itter which lay in the offing. Besides ere were on board the gig George Macey, manager of Fox's firm, James Stevens, ins, George Lidster, and Edward Lidster. made for the pilot cutter it was blow',and a high sea was running, and just was nearing the cutter the latter was her beam by a violent squall and snowshe righted and came up to windward it caught underneath the gig, and in a A latter was torn in two. Coaker was ly able to seize the cutter's bobstay, and on board, but of the other five men vas afterwards seen. It was dark, but a, Gurney and Kelland, volunteered to the men. They put off in a boat and, tut for some time, but were unable to gef Le cutter, and ran before the wind for Eventually they landed at Blackpool, returned to Dartmouth in a carriage, the relief of their relatives and friends,  liVes  belonging ing -firm  barT  naiie-'d  Lot ant er there local mai L Collins, I2e giif n' lum y, le git dc o I a. )ows rii ent he 'nate ; got ing as pilots, :h fo t' i A a t to t 4 I mill. ice t ex tly t fear d  OL the recovered. - fa.p3i NVOA Cunardo haat.  was put news of  that they, too were lost. The lifeboat directly Coaker got ashore with the catastrophe, but the bodies were not Stevens and Collins were married and Lilies .  leave fi Macey' mother.  of seven and four respectively. almost the sole support of his widowed  The Aer Bothnia, which left New York on the 7th with 32 first, 50 second cabin, and 91 steerage assengers, and 438 sacks of mails, arrived off Qu non town on Monday en route for Liverpool. About greo the previous day a fire broke out in the storeroom, adjoining the saloon, caused either byl the upsetting or by the exploding of an oil lamp In a short time smoke and flames were observed issuing through the ventilators, and .1 greatly alarmed the passengers who were on deck at the time. However, their fears were quickly allayed by the captain and officers. Measures were taken to extinguish the fire. Volumes of water were poured into storeroom, and in about an hour it was completely subdued, not, however, until the greater portion of the stores was destroye . The Italian steamer San Marco and the French steamer Argelien came into collision in the Straits of Messina at four o'clock on Monday morning. Both vessels sank, but the crew were saved with exception of three men belonging te the French vessel, who perished. The Austrian her voyage ft-aground Compare, ._ ' immedt wed. An Italian barque, name unknown, has been run down and Bunk off Villafranca by the steamer Saint Marc. The crew of 13 are reported as drowned Captain Robertson, of Dundee, master of the steamer Coventina, from Palmero, committed suicide on Sunday at sea by jumping overboard. The veer A arrived at Boston, U.S., in command of the it officer.  sank . were ea,,  Lloyd steamer Milano, while on from Dalmatian ports to Trieste, ran early on Monday morning off Cape at the entrance to Pola Bay. The vessel diately, but the passengers and crew  veseefit cptain ive lurng eveneon S by IN Furth  The which that (it named one nig)  . of the British steamer Glenberrie, wed at New York on Monday, reports • the voyage two of the ship's engineers, wenson and Thompson, were suffocated by charcoallumes while asleep.