STEAMER COLLISION.
Two "vessels sunk. Fifteen passengers drowned. COFTBIGHT.J LONDON, Oct 3L News has just reached London that a steamer proceeding from Dublin to Holyhead capsized at midday to-day, and that the crow and sixty passengers were drowned. Novi. Further, intelligence is to hand regarding the disaster in St George’s Channel, and the report that sixty persons have been drowned is proved incorrect. It has now been ascertained that the calamity was occasioned by a collision between the 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 passengers and crew Wero saved by (he vessels’ boats, hot fifteen persons wore drowned.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1107, 2 November 1883, Page 2
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118STEAMER COLLISION. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1107, 2 November 1883, Page 2
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