Three hundred immigrants were drowned when the ocean liner Conejos which was on the way from Batum to Constantinople was wrecked and sunk when it tried to take shelter against a huge gale near the port of Trebizonda, according to a report from Constantinople. More than 100 of the immigrants were Russian Jews who where on their way to the United States.
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