The Recent Wreck of the Steamer Rodondo.
*> FURTHER INTERESTING PARTICULARS. | Per Press Association] & pel a ide, This Day. The Rodondo's passengers have arrived here. One passenger declares that the Captain had to call for volunteers to stoke the vessel and jettison tbe cargo Tbe general impression was that the vessel remained on the reef, but it was not so as the steamer went clean over it, and it was only her water-tight com* partments which kept her afloat. Captain Gollan and a passenger state there may have been seven or eight persons drowned, as there were a number of stowaways on board. The passengers were in the boats all night and at daylight went on board again, as the steamer was still floating, and Captain Hill bolieved that ho would succeed in getting her into port. The ship did get under way, but the steering gear became disabled, and the crew being unable to repair it, tho passengers once more took to the boats. Captain Hill, with half-a-dozen others, romainod on board, and endeavored to steer the ship tp the island by means of her head sails, the object beipg tp beach her, but water was made too fast, and Bhe sauk. The firemen on the whole are indignant at tho reflections cast on them, and allege they manned the boats and started tho pumps.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 95, 16 October 1894, Page 2
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225The Recent Wreck of the Steamer Rodondo. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 95, 16 October 1894, Page 2
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