NARROW ESCAPE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 30 May 1913, Page 5

NARROW ESCAPE.

TAINUI-INCA COLUSION. THE PASSENGERS' STORIES. UJy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association. 1 London, May 28. Passengers interviewed at Plymouth state that the Tainui ran into the fog on Saturday afternoon. Jt was impossible to see more than a few yards ahead. At seven o'clock on Sunday morning the Inca suddenly loomed up in the mist. The bows of the steamers collided, as one was crossing the course of the other.

Many of the pasesngers on the deck saw the Inca's crew, some half naked, rushing for the boats, before they lost sight of the vessel. Forward, the Tainui began to dip, until a few hours afterwards the propeller was visible out of the water. The boats on the promenade deck were lowered.

Wireless calls reached the Garth Castle forty miles away, hut it was ten in the evening before she reached the Tainui. The fog was still dense. A majority of the passengers went to sleep, and some undressed. The situation, however, steadily grew worse ,and they were awakened at three o'clock on Monday and told to don the lifebelts and bo transferred to the Garth Castle. This was safely accomplished in an hour, in the Tainui's boats. The Garth Castle's boats forming a line, acted as guides between the vessels, which were threequarters of a mile apart. It is significant that boat drill was practised on the Tainui eighteen hours earlier, just before the fog came on. The passengers were accommodated in the saloon and the steerage rooms. Manv male pasesngers gave up their berths.