THE IOLAIRE DISASTER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 86, 6 January 1919, Page 5

THE IOLAIRE DISASTER

DEATH ROLL OF 300 STORY OF THE WRECK OFF STORNAWAY (Rec. January 5, 5.5 p.m.) ; London, January 2. Details of the wreck of the naval auxiliary yapht lolaire, with large loss of life, show that the night was clear with a roughish sea.. A sudden storm carried her broadside on to the entrance of . Stornaway harbour, when she became unmanageable and struck her bow on the ground ft few yards from a ledge of lock that was jutting from the shore. Seas continually swept her, and within a lew minutes she listed broadside on. Two boats that were launched were smashed to pieces. Fifty or sixty men, tempted by tho nearness ,of tho shore, jumped for . the ledge and were killed on the ragged rocks. Some reached the but were washed off. Finally two : lauded and got, a hawser seenred by which the survivors on board the Jolaire were rescued. Owing to the intense colci inanv failed to keep their hold of the hawser and were drowned. The lolairo broke -up in half an hour find disapP The'total death-roll was three hundred. Only forty were saved,, of whom many were badly injured amongst the ]aggecl ; rocks. Cable Assn. THE STRANDED TRANSPORT LANDING THE 'WOUNDED. (Rec. January 5, 5.5 p.m.) New York, January 3. Two thousand one hnndred soldiers climbed down rope ladders from the transport Northern Pacific, which stranded on Fire Island coast,, to the decks of the Tescue vessels. Two hundred seniously wounded men remained on ooard.-f Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STARVED AND ILL-TREATED F4.TE OF 100,000 ITALIAN WAR PRISONERS. Rome, January 3. Official inquiry proves ' that 100,000 Italian prisoners died of starvation, cold, and ill-treatment in Germany and Austria.Over a million parcels sent to prisoners were stolen. The treatment in Germany was more barbarous than that in Austria—Aus.-Ij''?. Cable Assn. ,