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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1827, 7 August 1906, Page 2

Onk of Iho most terrible disasters of the sea is the wreck of aa immigrant ship ) and this morning our oable3 record too sinking of tho Italian steamer Sirio. Eight hundred immigrants had set out for what was to t-bom a Land of Promise— in this case Buenos Ayres—and when only oightoeu miles from Cartbagena, at a time when the sea was quite calm, the steamer s-truek a woll-koown shoa', and within half an hour bad sunk—apparently the result of the captain's criminal recklessness With tho help at hand tho loss of life should not have been vary groat, but a dreadful panic sat io, the Italian emigrants fighting with kuives and revolvers for lifebelts and the boats The Iniof details to hand provide sorrowful reading, being a tale of fioodish cowardice without any mention of acts of horoiem that usually light up the darker side of such a tragic occurrence. Is is to bo hopsd that later information will show that the pooplo who so bravely ret sail to make new homes for themselves in a far ojuntry were not so craven at heart gs represented by tho first hasty accounts,