MANY PERSONS INJURED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 310, 24 October 1888, Page 3

MANY PERSONS INJURED.

By the arrival of the Union Company's steamship Mararoa from Sydney we are placed in possession of additional details of the disastrous storm which that vessel en, countered when noaring Sydney on her last voyage from this port. From inquiries made onboard the Mararoa we gather that there were a large number of passengers on deck at the time of the accident. Mrs Henderson was sitting* with her sister, who was looking after two of the children, and had the baby in her arms. The sea that was on at the time was very heavy, and what is called a beam sea. Tho Mararoa got on the top of a huge wave, and rolled to windward andbeinc: struck by the next sea gave a heavy lurch to leeward and the water rushed over and alon^r the deck. None came over the windward bide of the steamer, the volume of water being entirely from the leeward. No damage was done to the vessel. Among the passengers there happened to be Dr. Smiley who did all in his power for the sufferers and saw to their safe conveyanco to the hospital, on the arrival of the steamer in Sydney.

CAPTAIN EDIE'S STATEMENT. Captain Edie informed our representative) that he could say very little about the accident. "When Mro Henderson and her child disappeared he was busily engaged binding the leg of a seaman named Jones, and it was after the fatal occurrence that he was informed of it by his officers. Captain Edie is, however, convinced that Mrs Henderson must have fallen overboard, having lost her foothold by the mocion oi the vessel. He considers it improbable that she was washed overboard, because the water which broke on board did not go over but through the rails.