A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
200 Remounts Killed
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Received this day at 9 41 a. m. Adelaide, Oct 19. The steamer “City of Lincoln” has pu in, in distress.
It bad a terrible experience while cn route from Melbourne to Durban with 700 remounts aboard. It encountered a
terrific gale off Capo Borda, compelling her to lay to for the sake of the stock, which wps dreadfully knocked about and in frantic terror. Then the main crank shaft broke and
the vessel lay helpless in a rough sea, which broke right over the staving and the bulwarks, Horse boxes were swept overboard, and down the hold where the horses lay piled in heaps, dead and dying A passing steamer stood by, and when
the gale moderated somewhat ic twice got hawsers aboard, but they broke and it had to give up the attempt. Eventually after being three days in the gale, ibe Lincoln’s engineers managed to disconnect the broken engine and fitted it with machinery which enabled it to steam t) port under low pressure. On its arrival in port it presented an extraordinary appearance, the decks were piled up with dead and d.ying horses. Altogether she lost about 200 animals.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 October 1901, Page 3
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203A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 October 1901, Page 3
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