DREADFUL CALAMITY.
THREE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN LIVES LOST. LOSS OF THE MARCH SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. [Per Press Agency.] London, May 8. The reported arrival of the Californian mails on the 4th was false. The steamship Schiller, homeward bound from New York, with the Australian and New Zealand mails via San Francisco, and over 260 passengers, was totally wrecked off the Scilly Isles. Only a few passengers were saved. May 10. The Schiller went ashore in a fog. 311 perished ; 44 persons, and a portion of the mails, were saved. The passengers by the Schiller were principally Germans. No Australians are traceable. Fifty-six mail-bags, containing chiefly newspapers, were saved. The following telegram has been received from Mr. Vogel:— “ London, May 10.
“On Friday the steamer Schiller, with the New Zealand mails, was lost near the Soilly Islands. 200 mail bags and 3XI lives were lost.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4420, 20 May 1875, Page 2
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144DREADFUL CALAMITY. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4420, 20 May 1875, Page 2
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