News was received yesterday by wire that the 0. & O, steamer Gaelic, which left here on the 8th inst, for San Francisco had gone ashore at Yobsibi Beacon near Shimonosek't She left Nagasaki on the 12th, and the accident occurred early the next morning. The vessel was beached, but her forward holds were damaged, and she had 12 feet of water in her when last telegram was despatched, The cabin passengers were sent on to Kobe. Among them were Dr. Lowson and Mrs, Lowson bound to America. Dr. Lowson will come tobe regarded as a Jonah; he was one of the few survivors of the Boklwra, The Gaelic will have to be docked; part of her cargo (sugar) has had to be jettisonned.
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