LOSS OF THE BEDFORD.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 August 1910, Page 3

LOSS OF THE BEDFORD.

STRUCK BY TREMENDOUS "i']Ab JA? AX SENDS*"\ FLEIST 01' WARSHIPS. TO BRITISH ADMIRAL'S ASSISTANCE. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.} [PER PREP.3 ASSOCIATION (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 23. Tho "Bedford" was struck by T>emendous seas, which were hipjli. iftei a recent typhoon, and rushed in under the armoured deck and .anoint? room. Admiral Winslowc sent a wireles.s message to the Japanese Admiralty, who sent a fleet of warships to Jmassistance. Salvagers found St impossible to approach the reef, as the Bedford was pounding oh the nocks, Salvage operations will begin to day. (A cable received from uondon yesterday stated :—'Hie cruiser redford, 9800 tons, which ran agroirul at Quel part Island, about 200 miles West of Nagasaki, was making a trial at full .speed when she ran ashore at Quelpart. The inrush ol wator caused the deaths of an engineer, 15 stokers and two seamen. The remainder were taken off by thf. Minotaur.)