Shocking Shipping Calamity
570 LIVES LOST. I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ! London. March 18. The Anchor Line steamer Utopia, 2715 ( tons, bound from Genoa to New York, • with eight hundred and fifty passengers ! on board, chiefly Italian emigrants, collided with the ironclads, Anson and Eodney, when anchored off Gibraltar. The An son's ram tore a hole in her 80 feet wide, and the Utopia sank in ten minutes. Five hundred and seventy lives were lost. The boats of the Channel Squadron rescued many. In the confusion a launch 1 belonging to the Immortalite was smashed and several Englishmen drowned. The * electric light of, the warship enabled ] scores to be rescued during the night. The Sweddish corvette also saved many.
■ s We are directed to state that Mr Trim- 8 ble's sale of Mr Radford's drapory stock * is postponed tiil Saturday next, 21st instant. The sale will take place at " The Other House," Manchester street, at 2 p.m. t
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 114, 19 March 1891, Page 2
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