SHIPPING DISASTER.
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Sydney, May 31
So far as can be ascertained, there were 20 saloon passengers drowned from the Lye-e-Moon, besides the crew. The total loss of life is expected to reach between seventy and eighty. Melbourne. May 31
The following passengers booked for Sydney by the Lye-e-Moon on Saturday Mesdames Mclntyre, Ellis, H. Adams, and family, Gardner, Coghill, McKillop, Campbell, Child and infant Jennings, and Hamilton; Misses Hamilton, Rev. W. Poole. Messrs A. Smith, W. Johnston, D. C. Harris, C. Cox, E. C. Holmes, O. G. Bradley, A. Graham, A. McGregor, H. Lumsden, John A . Bnckley, and 27 steerage. The following are the names of the saved passengers, five, namely • —Rev. Poole, Messrs Harris, Lnmsden, Smith, and Master Henry Adams. The crew saved include the captain and first officer, whose names are not given ; Hntchison, second officer ; Fotheringham, third officer ; 1 homson, chief steward ; Thorpe, boatswain ; JBobertsman, carpenter; seamen Menally, Johnston, Bnrgland, and TyrelL 11 a.m.
Farther details shew that the Lye-e----3loon struck a reef close under the lighthouse at 9.30 p.to. yesterday. The loss of life is estimated at fully seventy persons. This estimate is confirmed by a message from the special correspondi it the “ Argus.” Tip to the present time no further particulars are to hand
Melbourne, May 31. Additional particulars are to hand in reference to the .wreck of Ly-ee-Moon. The wind during Sunday evening was W. S.W., the night being fine and clear, with high sea running. The Ly-ee-Moon passed Cape Howe at 8.15 p.m., a mile distant from the shore. After rounding the point the course was set due north. Cotheringham, the second officer, was in charge of the vessel, and the captain ordered him to call him when nearing Green Cape light. Upon the captain being called, "be found the vessel heading straight for the reef, and so close to the shore that it was impossible to avoid danger. Within ten minutes of the ship striking she parted amidships, the after-part remaining stationary on the reef, while the fore-part was drifting shorewards, the seas making a complete breach over both portions of the vessel. All those who were saved were landed with the aid of a rope worked by the lighthousekeeper and his assistants. Five saloon passengers were saved, as well as a number of the crew. The rescued were in the fore-part of the vessel, the only loss of life from that portion being one lady, who perished while attempting to reach 1 the shore, and a youth, who died from exposure. The captain was the last to leave the wreck. All the remaining ! saloon passengers perished, it being impossible to render them any assistance. At daybreak the whole afterpart of the ship had disappeared. The Green Cape light was showing brightly at the time of the accident, A steamer left Sydney this morning in order to lake on these who were saved.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1252, 1 June 1886, Page 3
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483SHIPPING DISASTER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1252, 1 June 1886, Page 3
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