OPORTO WRECK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1653, 21 January 1913, Page 5

OPORTO WRECK.

LOSS OF THE VERONESE,

43 LIVES LOST. *

By Teloeraph-Prces Association-Copyright Lisbon, January 19. °m later reports it appears that 43 persons have lost their lives in the wreck of the Liverpool-Brazil liner Veronese, on the Portuguese coast, near Oporto. ' Theio wore 231 persons on hoard the vessel, 142 passengers and 92 in tho crew, flnd of these 191-havo been saved. A passenger, two of tho crew, and two of . tlio purser'a staff died from exposure on board. :

> _Thirty-eight passengers were swept off the steamer-or drowned in the attempts to land: them.

Turner was the last to qui tlio Veronese. 7' .■: :>

, Air, Smith, the Marconi wireless operator, communicated with.the ship Hollandia five minutes after the striking of the Veronese, but the engines, then became flooded, and thero was' no further communication.. '.

Mr.. Henderson, the third officer, then flag signalled for some time. Interviewed, lio paid;a, tribute to Martin, the boatswain, who ' repeatedly risked his life

in an endeavour to. get a rocket ; lino from tho sea-swept decks. Mr. Henderson, added that a eeaman named Jay also showed great courage, though he was injured. . .. • -

The chief officer (Mr. Hugo) 'experienced : tremendous diffioulty in romoving the : third-class passengers from (their flooded quarters. They were paralysed by fright. -. Several were .drowned. ; ■ ' Mr. Turilbull, a passenger, narrated the story of how his, five-year-old eon was swept from a lady's arms and drowned.'

; • OWNER'S STATEMENT. (Rec. January 20, 11.35 p!m.) , London, January 20. ■ ' Most of the Veronese's .crew were saved by jumping, and being hauled aboard a lifeboat. ; The owner states that nino passengsrs ond four of the crew were drowned. : LOST AT THE LIZARD. ; . (Rec. January 20, 11.35 p.m.) , . London, January 20. : Portions of a; boat and'the bodies'of two of-the crew of, the steamer Sola, 3103 tons, bound for Buenos Ayres, havo beon recovered at the Lizard. • GERMAN LINER'ROUGHLY HANDLED. V ; London, January 19. ■ The Hamburg-American steamer Christian X has reachedi Queenstown broken down., She was for forty-threo.days battling against storms in tho Atlantic. ■ /' BRAVERY IN NAVIGATION,,'-'

London, January 19. . At, a meeting at Newcastlo it was -urged that tho freedom of the city should be granted to the captain, officers, and cr6w of, the Snowdon 'Range for brAvery in navigation. ,* The vessel recently .■ arrived at .Queenstown after a terrible, passage of fifty days from Philadelphia, : Vv" TTBER LIOTR:IN.TOW,' ' ■ ' i. London, January 19, , ...The Star of Australia, which.broko her tail shaft at 6ea, while botiud from Sydney ; ; to London, and was recently' towed 600 miles into Aden, has now arrived at Port Said in tow. , . OIL-PUEL SHIP'S TROUBLES. • . , , ' , Suva, January 19. ' ; The Leyland Shipping Company's steamer Ikala, tons, on: a voyage to Puget - Sound, - which,' left' this port for Melbourne on January 3, but returned on the 12th owing to a difficulty with-her oil fuel, has now 'Tesumed her .voyage, for Melbourne.