LONDON.
October 31. News has just reached London that a steamer proceeding from Dublin to Holyhead capsized at midday to-day, and that the crew and sixty passengers have been drowned. November 1. Further intelligence is to hand regarding the disaster in St. George's Channel, and the report that sixty persons have been drowned is proved to bo incorrect. It has now been ascertained the calamity was occasioned by a collision between tho mail packet Holyhead, running between Holyhead and Dublin, and the steamer Alhambra. Both vessels were severely injured, and sank shortly after the collision. The majority of tho pussengers and crew were saved by the vessels' boats, but fifteen passengers were drowned. The explosions which occurred on the underground railway are believed to have been caused by dynamite at the hand of Fenian emissaries. The metropolitan stations are now guarded by strong bodies of police, and the approaches to the tunnels are watched. The affair has caused considerable alarm in the metropolis.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3837, 2 November 1883, Page 3
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163LONDON. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3837, 2 November 1883, Page 3
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