TERRIBLE COLLISION AT SEA

Kumara Times, Issue 2803, 15 September 1885, Page 2

TERRIBLE COLLISION AT SEA

A collision resulting in the loss of 13 lives occurred on July 21, off the west coast of Cornwall. Her Majesty's ship Hecla, torpedo depot, was proceeding on her way to Portland, and the Cheerful, GDI tons, the. passengers and crew niiinberin<v about 50, and owned !,y Messrs. Powcl and Co., of Livei-pnui was bound from Palmon'li m Livc-

[)oo>. At the (iuie ni'ill--'r-)lli--ii>n (four a.m.) the sea was comparatively calm.

with a ground swell, but a very thick haze. According to the officers of i lie Hecla, the vessel was going at Imlf speed, and the Cheerful at full speed, while those on board the Cheerful give an exactly opposite statement. About 25 miles north-west of Longships, the Hecla look-out observed the Cheerful. Had the vessels done tight they would have ported their helms; as it was, according to the Hecla, the Cheerful put the helm hard a-srarboard, and the Hecla cut into the Cheerful abreast the funnel on the port side. The latter instantly began to settle clown, and in four minutes disappeared bow foremost. The Hecla's boats we>e immediately lowered, and succeeded in rescuing the bulk of the Cheeifill's human freight who were in the water. Of these Mrs Minnie Holbrooke, wife of a medical man in London, died from fright on board the Hecla; but her husband and son recovered from the effects of the immersion. David Jones, second mate, also died on board, having been very much injured by jumping on to the wreckage in the water from the deck in a lifebuoy, and being almost drowned through having got through the buoy too far and floating feet uppermost. Several other passengers went down in the ship. The scene after the collision was heartrending, and but for thn speed with which the rescues were effected, the death-roll would have been much greater. The Hecla remained on the spot for two hours, employing the time by stopping up a rent in her bow some ten feet >ong, above and below the waterline. The fore compartment was filled with water. The vessel then bore up for Plymouth, to land the rescued'passengers, who found accommodation in the town, while the survivors of the crew remained on the Hecla. There was next to nothing saved from the unfortunate trader, the catastrophe being so sudden. THE BAD AND WORTHLESS Are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and the most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in winch the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money and credit on the good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word "Hop" or "Hops" were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word " Hop " or " Hops " in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr. Soule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.