PERILS OF THE SEA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1742, 6 May 1913, Page 5

PERILS OF THE SEA.

NORWEGIAN SHIP'S TERRIBLE VOYAGE,

STORM AND DISEASE.

By TelezraDh—l'ross Association—Couyrieht (lice. May 5, J0.20 i>.)u.) Fremantle, May 5. A boat containing four sick and famished men has arrived at Dongarra (190 miles N.N.W. of Perth), from the Norwegian ship Victor, bound from Delagoa Hay to New Caledonia. When the lxrnt left the ship she was forty miles off tho coast, and practically in an abandoned condition. There was disease aboard, and tho vessel was short of provisions. They asked 'that assistance should bo sent to navigate her to port. Shortly after leaving Delagoa Bay, tho Victor ran into a storm and was damaged. Disease then broke out on board, and tho captaim and chief officer died on April 8, and two of the crew on April 10. Others died later. Food then commenced to inn short, and somo time before the vessel made the West Australian coast those on board vcro too few and too weak to attend to the navigation. Assistance has been 9ent. AMERICAN SCHOONER WRECKED. CREW TAKE TO A RAFT. (Rcc. May 5, 7.35 p.m.) Suva, May 5. The schooner Lyman D. Forstor, from Puget Sound to Suva, witli a million feet of lumber, was caught in a hurricano off Turtle Island, in tho Lan group, on April i 5. Tho forco of tho 'hurricane dismasted the scliooner, tho rudder was disabled, all the boats were damaged l , and. a third of the cargo was swept away. Captain. Ilillman and tho crew of ten men built a raft and abandoned tho ship. On Thursday they readied tho island of Kabara, and theneo took a cutter to Levnkn, iv'herc they arrived on Sunday. Tho cargo of lumber was insured. Lloyd's agent has dispatched the Waipori to the scene of tho wreck.