WRECK OF A BARQUE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1373, 6 November 1884, Page 3

WRECK OF A BARQUE.

EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. [bt telegraph.] Dunedin, To-day. The barque Clyde, which left here yesterfay morning, is ashore at Duvauchelle’s Baymear Akarca Heads. Later. ’ Oaptaia Fox this morning received the following, telegram from Duvauchelle’a Bay:—“ Clyde is ashore near Akaroa Heads. Only myself saved as yet— George Gibson.” The vessel is a barque of .682 tons. She left Dunedin yesterday for Lyttelton with 160 tons of sugar (part original cargo from Mauritius) consigned to-Wood, Snand and Co., of Christchurch. Captain Culmer had his wife and three etmdreh on board. He was well acquain- - tedwith the coast, having for years commanded the schooner Edith May. The Clyde belonged to the fleet of J. 0. Ellis and Co., of Newcastle (N.S.W.) The following were the crew on board : William Currie (mate), H. Ferdinand {second mate), Richard Marney (A. 8.), Herbert (boy), Ah Lah (cook), Ah Hing (boy), David Murray, H. Sampaoh, W. McLean, P. Soderguist, T. Smith, Charles Brown, Andrew Christepherson (Aiß.’s) 3 50 p.m. The steamer bas returned. All except Gibson, the apprentice, are lost. The ship has broken up. Ddvauohblle’s p.m. The Clyde struck on a reef at Horseshoe Bay, near Akaroa, South Heads. An apprentice who was saved fears that the vessel is broken up and all lives lost except the mate and boatswain. These two men were seen on the bottom of a boat drifting towards the land at Akaroa. The a. a. Akaroa left an hour ago for the scene of the wreck. : Christchurch, To-day. A telegram from Akaroa states that the barque Jessie Alice Clyde ran aground at Horseshoe Bay during heavy weather last night. Nineteen souls were on board, only one, an apprentice, having as yet - succeeded in getting ashore. There is a heavy sea on. A steamer with a volunteer crew and a boat baa been despatched from Akaroa to the sceue of the accident. 3 45 pm. . Further information re the wreck of the barque states that she has completely broken up. The captain, his wife and three childreen and thirteen others were drowned. Only one was saved.