Terrible Maritime Calamity.
A WARSHIP SCUTTLED. ALL ON BOARD PERISH BUT ONE. (PKll PBI'SS ASSOCIATION.) Nkw Yokk, September 24. News from the Wost Indies states the Haytian warship Alexandro Petion which was conveying a number of diplomatists to negotiate a treaty with San Domningo, sank like a stone off Cape Tiburon, at The Western extremity of the Island, and 80 persons were drowned, including all the ofitcers and the foreign consuls. Only one person was saved. It is suspected the vessel was deliberately scuttled.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 74, 25 September 1893, Page 2
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84Terrible Maritime Calamity. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 74, 25 September 1893, Page 2
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