COLLISION IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
PASSENGER STEAMER SUNK, Loxdox, November 20. A terrible shipping disaster occurred in the Channel last night, the Eottfri m passenger steamer Scholten having come into collission with another steamer the name of which is unknown. The Scholten sank almost immediately, and upwards of 200 persons were drowned, Fifty were saved and landed at Dover. Later. Further particulars of the collision in tho Channel state that the Scholten was bound for New York. The total number of persons drowned is now given at 150,
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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 10, 24 November 1887, Page 2
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