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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 96, 15 March 1888, Page 3

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A TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA

PANIC IN A CHURCH

'■ Two Swedish sailors have been landed at Plymouth, the sole survivors of the American ship Alfred Watts, of New York, which was wrecked with the loss of twenty-six lives off the Bahamas. The survivors passed a dreadful time. The ship broke up and they remained on a part of the wreck, from the main portion of which nearly all the other hands were washed away. There was then only one chance for those on the raft, to get back to the wreck. This some of them did, but the owner's son, in his delirium, walked into the water. Another was drowned who jumped into, the water with the intention of swimming., A. Russian who leaped into the sea in despair, was seized by a shark, and a fourth was too exhausted to prevent himself from being washed away. The two Swedes finally reached the waterlogged Alfred Wa*>ts. Tkere.they sank down, exhausted and unconscious. On recovering, they found plenty of food and water, and thus managed to live on the floating wreck until the Lizzie Perry took them off. T.he Lizzy Perry was herself subsequently wrecked during a great gale at Baibadoes, but all hands including the rescued Swedes, were saved by taking to the boats. They were, however, stripped of everything by the natives on shore. A terrible disaster occurred at Laria, in the Southern Tyrol, yesterday evening. While the priest was preaching a member of the congregation was seized with. an epileptic fit, and in the confvsi6n which followed seme one raised aa alarm of fire. The congregation became panic-stricken, and made a sudden rush for the donrs. Eight person were crushed to death, and many more were injured.