TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 82, 26 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

-* — . [BT ELECTBIO TELEGRAPH.) [FSB TBESS ASSOOUTIO".} Wm-mhotoh, Feb. 24. A fatal accident occurred at abont one o'clock this morning, when the hulk Eliaa Whitney with eight hundred torw of coal aboard saffk in the harbor ia deep water, about one hundred yards from the wharf. The man in charge, Davey, wa* aroused by his wife, a young woman only R'X'cen years old, hearing a rush of water in the hold. He got his wife and baby bur riedly on deck in time to dress, nnd had just time to place them and himself on a large plank when the hulk disappeared, j

They drifted on the plank to the baths at the south end of the harbor, where tbe man, much exhausted, dragged himself io a neighboring house for assistance. His wife was found dead, and the baby is missing, and no donbt was drowned. A furiotw northerly gale was blowing at the time, and it was intensely dark. The hoik carried no light. A report is cur* rent that the steamer Taupo, which left for Picton a little after midnight, ran into the hulk. The steamer was seen very neat, and it appeared ip .'remain alongside for a few minules and then s? earned away . The hulk sunk abont 1 twenty anionics after the supposed collision. Tbe bnlk is not insured, and belongs to Captain Williams. Nblson, Feb. 24. Arrived— Tanpo. C«ptflia Carey's account re Eliza Whitney is, that after leaving the wharf it was blowing hard aod ye y dark at the time. Saw a schooner's lijjht ahead an-3 clea-ed her aid then saw tbe hulk,' which had 00 lights burning, ahead. The steamer was going easy at the time, and the entities were reversed immediately to fall speed astern. The Taupo touched- the hulk so lightly that the passengers standing on deck scarcely felt the shook. Captain Carey immediately sang ont to the mate and carpenter asking whether any damage wns done, sod they replied not to any extent to the bulwarks. They stayed by the hulk for five m'uutes, all hands forward singiog ont at the top of their voice asking whether tbe-.'e was any one on board, but got no reply, «o be steamed on. Captain Carey wj*s g eatly shocked 01' hearing tho result, as he had no idea of the collis'on being serious, or that there were any people aboard. Every body on the steamer is equally surprised.