WRECK OF THE RIO DE JANIERO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 42, 26 February 1901, Page 3

WRECK OF THE RIO DE JANIERO.

■♦. —_ FEB PRBBS ASSOCIATION. (Rewired 25, 9.15 a.m.) London, February 24. Details of the wreck show that tbe pilot, Jordon, on entering the Golden Gate, warned Captain Ward that it was unsafe to proceed in the fog, but the advice was disregarded. The pilot ghoHted, " All take to the hoato." The Chinese aboard howled frantically rnd the women pcreamed piteously. Everybody scrambled for the boats; some jumped overboard. Captain Ward placed the women in boats manned partly by ma'e passengers and partly by the crew. One boat load was swamped fine another on a spar while iryiog to escape the suction Loin the sii kins steamer. 'Hio rapt-?''n locked himself it hi: stater-, om and Kick with the nhip. C'.-fitam JTocht, of Mie German n; vy 'iiVci Jiiu-:se'.f with a life-belt. LATBR DETAILS. Tuose drowned in the wreck include* iLc, Wildman, American Consul

General at Hongkong, and his fami'y,] I Mr. 0. Dowd ill, a wt 11-known barrister, ; Mr. H. 0. Mi'hiesor, an engin- er employed by the Chirese Governim-nt; Mr. Alfred Hart, a diamond expert from Manila, and his wife. Mr. William Brander, a member of the London Stock Exchange, was faved by a life preserver. The latefst accounts fixate that Captain Ward remained on the bridge until the ship foundsred.