The Chilean Naval Ministry at Santiago announced, last week, withholding all details, that the transport Anagamos sank with the loss of 291 lives, after running upon a rock near Point Nordhuila, and that Captain Corbeta Ismael Suarez not only did not leave his ship but committed suicide upon the bridge.
A survivor, José Aguila, babbled: "lost our rudder and were dashed between two great rocks . . . waves 30 feet high . . . every lifeboat sank ... we fought for bits of floating timber ... I was knocked senseless and flung by the waves stark naked on the...
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