Heavy Weather
VESSEL STRIKES SUBMERGED WRECK. [BY ELECTRIC TELEORAVH-COPYrtIGHT] [per press association.] NEW YORK., January 1. The telegraph and telephone wires have been so damaged by the storm that communication is completely interrupted. Much damage has been doue to small shipping. Tlie tug Margaret struck a submerged, wreck on the New Jersey coast during si terrific gale.
The captain attempted to beach the vessel, which was rapidly sinking, and she was stranded on a sand-bar.
The crew endeavoured to launch si lifeboat, but it was overturned, and one of the sailors was drowned.
Life-savers rescued ten others
When the lifeboat turned turtle the spectators on the shore rushed into the surf uuicl dragged all ashore.
The Margaret is a wooden screw schoonev, of 203 tons, buTlt in 1904, and owned by the P. Dougherty Company, of Baltimore.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 January 1913, Page 3
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137Heavy Weather Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 January 1913, Page 3
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