TWENTY PERSONS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN LOST.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 318, 21 November 1888, Page 4

TWENTY PERSONS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN LOST.

The National Lino steamer Queen, which arrived at Now York, October 10, is reported to have como into collision with the iishing schooner Madeline on the sth inst. It is said that twenty persons perished. The eollison occurred at 3 a.m. Friday during a fogofTtho banks of Newfoundland. The Queen struck tho Madeline amidships, cutting her in two and sinking her immediately. The captain, first and becond mate; 1 and steward of the fishing schooner were rescued after they had been in the water nearly an hour The re?t of the crew, numbering twenty, were lost. The Queen losl her bowsprit and foremast. The Madeline wa 1 * a French fishing schooner. The master of the Madeline sa} s : " The A'] adolinc sailed f > om G ranville eight months I ago, and having had a good catch of fish, i had started for Havre the night, before the | collision. The Madeline was soiling with a light breeze, from three to four miles por hour, flhen the Queen, goiner at full speed. struck her. It was \ cry foggy, and the first seen of the steamer was her lights close aboard. 1 had not time to give a single direction.' 5 " The steamship's iron bow struck the Madeline on the starboard side, directly p midships, and cut her in two. Beforo we could lift; a hand to eot the boats the vessel had sunk. The next thing I knew was that 1 was struggling in the water. Two boats, were loweied trom the Queen and I was taken aboard. The crew were asleep in their bunks at the tinip. Those on deck alone weie saved. It was impossible for the Madeline to have avoided the collision, as the steamer was going at great speed. Captain Healy, master of the Queen said that at the time of tho collision Second Officer Jackson had charge of tho vessel. A white light was seen by Jackson off the port bow and he supposed a vessel was at anchor. The Queen was making ten knots per hour. Had JacU&ou's supposition been Coi root, the Queen would have passed the Madeline safely. The accident is due to the display of the wrong: signal on the Madeline. After the collision the Queen was at once backed to clear the wreckage. The Madeline was a two-masted fi-hing smack of 4542 register, from Gvanville, on the Gulf of St. AJall, France. Everyone on board was a native of France.