Sea Tragedies.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 5

Sea Tragedies.

TSMELY RESCUE OF CREW.

MAROONED ON EASTER ISLAND.

•;By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] {United I'rshs Association.! Sydney, .January 4.

The rescued members of the crew of the schooner Eldorado, which was abandoned in the Pacific, have arrived here by the steamer Knight of the Gaiter. They tell a harrowing tale of privations at Easter Island, which they reached alter twelve days' buffeting by a terrific gale. Their provisions and water were exhausted, and Lhey ate berries and grass until, after they had been on the island for five months, they were picked up by the Knight of the Garter, which put in with a damaged rudder. If it had not been for. the steamer's damaged rud-

der tiny might have waited for two years, as steamers rarely call at Easter Island.

STRANDED UNDAMAGED.

BUT FIVE LIVES LOST

Copehagen, January 3

The Russian mine-laying steamer Xeiroks is stranded at Itonne. She was on her maiden voyage from MidUosborough to Li ban. The vessel is not damaged. The crew, consisting ;>f six Englishmen and a Russian officer, endeavored to reach the shore, uit their boat capsized. An English engineer and the Russian lieutenant alone were saved.

THE HIMITANGI'S PLSCHT.

STRIPPED OF HER PROPELLOR

[Per Press Association.] Wellington, January 1. The General Post Office was advised to-night by the Chatham Islands wireess telegraph station that the steaner Himitangi touched a rock on the lorth sido of the big island and stripped her propeller off. She is now authored, but is helpless.