The Ly-ee-Moon Disaster.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1722, 1 June 1886, Page 3

The Ly-ee-Moon Disaster.

— ♦ ■ • FURTHER PARTICULARS. (BT ELECTRIC TELKGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.) (RBOTERS' TKLEGRAJIS.) Melbourne, Monday. So far as can be ascertained, there •were 20 saloon passengers drowned from the Ly-ee-moon besides the crew. Ihe total lobs of life is expected to reach be ■ tween 70 and 80. Additional particulars to hand state that the wind during Sunday evening was west by' south-west, the night being fine, and a clear, bigh-runmng sea. The Ly .ee-moon passed Cape Howe at 8. 1 o p.m. bein? a mile distant from the shore; .After ronnding the point, the course «ras " set due.north. Mr I<otherngham, tfje third officer, was m charge of the vessel, and the captain ordered him to call,' him- when nearing 4^e Green Cape ligbi'., Jfpoa. the captain . being called, he "found ; the- vessel leading ■traißhtforthefeef,.andsoplose to the shore that it was found impossible to avoid the danger. Within ten minutes of the ship's striking, she parted amidships, the after-part remaining stationary .on the reef, while the fore-part drifted shorewards, the wa making a breach over both portions of the vessel. AH tliose who were saved were m the fore part of the vessel, and were landed by the aid of a rope worked by t\e lighthouse-keeper and assistants. ..Five saloon passengers were saved, as well as members of the crew. They were taken off the forepart of the vessel, the only loss of life from that portion being one.lady, who perished while attempting to, reach the shore, and ft youth, who died from exposure. The captain was the last to leave the wreck. All the remaininer saloon passengers perished, it being, impossible to render them any assistance. At daybreak the whole after-part of the ship had disappeared. The Green Cape light was showing brightly at the time of the accident. A steamer left Sydney this morning, m order to take on those who were saved.