WRECK OF THE YONGALA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 974, 1 April 1911, Page 2

WRECK OF THE YONGALA.

SEARCH STEAMERS OUT. Brisbane, March 30. The whole coast is being patrolled by search steamers from Townsville to the south of Cape Bowling Green. Further wreckage found is a couple of lifebuoys, a hatch, a grating, and a few other small relics which were brought by the steamer Alert to Townsville, and were discovered on the Wheeler Reef, thirty miles north-east of Bowling Green. Other steamers are still out, but the chances of finding any survivors are considered remote. The Yongala passed Dent Island at 6 o’clock at night, and the cyclone broke a couple of hours afterwards, giving her time to get through Whit Sunday passage. The theory is that the captain was running for shelter in the dark, in a tempestuous sea when the vessel struck a reef and ripped her bottom out. The lists of those on board have beeen revised as far as possible, and make the number of the crew 72 and the passengers about 50. There are poshly one or two other paaseng r- whose names have not appeared on the list. There is a movement on foot to start a fund in aid of the widows and children ot victims of the Yongala wreck.