THE LARGO BAY COLLISION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 349, 9 March 1889, Page 5

THE LARGO BAY COLLISION.

Papers received by the mail steamer give the following additional particulars of the collision between the barque Largo Bay, for Auckland, and an unknown steamer in the English Channel : —

London, February 6. The British barque Largo Bay, bound for Auckland, was towed to Spithead to - day in a sinking condition,

She report 5 ) that on Monday night last she was in collision with an unknown four-masted steamer off Beachy head, and that the steamer was sunk with all on board. The seamen of the Largo Bay say they are certain thatthe lost steamercarried passengers, and they estimate that the crew and passengers together numbered at least 100 persons. The steamer sank eight minutes after the collision occurred.

New York, February 7. In that unaccountable way in which disastrous news disseminates iLself, the indefinite cablegratnannouncingtheloss of a fourmasted steamship in collision with the British barque LargoJßay off Beachy Head spread through the city last night, all those' who had friends upon recently outgoing steamships bound lor London direct or German ports, received the news as an electric shock. Soon after midnight anxious souls could endure no longer the awful indefiniteness, hardly knowing what to do or whether to turn, the friends of ocean travellers donned thoir outer clothing and went out into the night to seek intelligence. About the various steamship companies' offices on Bowling Green and lower Broadway were seen gathered groups of anxious men, though a few women also had braved the zero weather to glean some intelligence as to the identity of the lost steamship. Confidences, hopes, and fears were freely exchanged, but nothing was learned. Can it be the Wen a of the North German Lloyd ? This was *he first question asked by many last night. She bad on board between 270 and 280 psrsons, including passengers and crew, and her value is over $100,000. Captain Kink, an able and experienced mariner, is her commander. Henry Clausen and many New Yorkers are on board. Two points which led to the general impression that the fated steamer may be the Werra are, that she has not yet been reported at her destination and that she is a four-master. There are several Rotterdam steamers also carrying four masts, but their course would not lead them near Beachy Head ; neither would the Werra's course take her very near the place of collision, but there is a bare possibility that she got lost in the fog and disabled her machinery and wandered from her path. [More recent cablegrams state that the steamer in collision with the Largo Bay was supposed to be the Glencoo, from Glasgow, with over 50 souls on board ]