ON THE ROCKS.
RUSSIAN STEAMER STRIKES. PANIC ON BOARD. By Telegraph-Press AEsociation-Copyrleht (Kec. -May 31, 0.30 a.m.) London, May 30. The Russian steamship Litiiania, with 1200 emigrants, bound for New York, rau on the rocks off the Orkneys in a dense fog. ■ . Her bows were- smashed and a panic occurred on board. Many sank on their knees and nrayed. The fog, however, lifted. The Lituania floated on her watertight compartments, which kept the water from the main hold until she reached the Tyne. [The Lituania is a steel four-masted vessel of 4248 tons, built in ISS9 by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, and owned by the Russian East Asiatic S.S. Co. She is registered at Libau/]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 830, 31 May 1910, Page 5
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115ON THE ROCKS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 830, 31 May 1910, Page 5
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