GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 48, 1 February 1916, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

SPLENDIDLY-FITTED VESSEL. BOAT PICKED UP. United Phebs Association. London, January 30. The steamer Appam was one of Elder-Dcmpster’s show boats and was splendidly fitted, including wireless. Captain Harrison, her commander, is one of the best-know n West African navigators. The vessel left Dakar on the Ilth of this month and was last seen on the 14th. A boat has been picked up quite new, capable of carrying forty people, probably damaged by a passing steamer hitting her in the darkness. Search revealed no wreckage in the vicinity of the boat. The company suggest as one boat is afloat others may he picked up by passenger vessels. AN AMERICAN CALAMITY. New York, January 3(1. San Diego reports that the loss of, life l,y the bursting of the dam in Tay Valley has been doubled, owing t,, a cloud burst which caused floods in the San Luiscry and San Paqual Valleys. Communication is altogether cut off. Many injuries are reported from the Tijuana hot springs, where a hotel collapsed, and many bodies were earned out to sea.