WRECK OF A MAIL STEAMER.
FOUR DAYS TERRIBLE SUSPENSE AMD SUFFERING. |P«R PKESS ASSOCIATION] (Received 13, i 43 p.m.) ' London, January 12. Thefmail boat Itinie ws< wrecked »iii the Faramen locks oil' Marseilles. •' 'io passengers ard crew, numbering » ''undred, were re-cued after four •!:i • n clinging to the wreck. Dataila show that the vessel was f >ng to pieefe aft since Monday, the ■ .11 rolling about the sea and invading •'• passengers, who were half starved, iiri lashed cccassionally to the rigging. *- perhuman efforts were made at ai i -!ue, being waited with a frenzy of j mi pense. The forehold on Thursday | '•is alone dry, bulkhead water-tight I- '<<t' artments preventing a collapse. T»e wind having shifted, the lifeboats whim able to get to the wreck and >•» tied all aboard at dawn on Friday. Tt.e disaster was due to mistaking ■l Faramen for the Plenier lights, '■■uty steamers have been simiarly i • t. previously, many with all hands.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 11, 14 January 1901, Page 3
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158WRECK OF A MAIL STEAMER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 11, 14 January 1901, Page 3
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