Appalling Wreck of a Steamer.
Over a Kiia fed Lives Lost,, Only Five Saied, (Receive 1 Nov. 20, 10.88 pm.) LONDON, Nov. 2>\ The London and South Western Ifailway ('onipanv's steamer Hilda., j .'a plain ( Irepiry, with a crew of '2B I elonging (o Southampton, about 20 -iilmary passengers, and GO Dretoii onion sellers, was wrecked ut Cezimi.ra, all being drowned except one sailor and four liretoiis, who were rescued ••ftorc iuging to the rigging for eight hours. , Tlie Hilda left Southampton on Friday night, but w s detained :it iiui'st Cisile by U fog. She encountered heavy seas and a. snowstorm in tuo Channel, ami in • a thick fog bt. Main slit; Htnirk snmo rocks. Oji O'l-'i-liiy tfio tumid and iiui>st>s Wc<v vjVi!,!n at low water. Tiiu ii;c!)oafc was fuuiul empty at Hi > ■•'thf.j wiioro 1;! hoilios wciu washed .four bodies being recovered at ALalo. Lie luajoriiy of tlie passengers weio asleep when (lie vessel struck.' - '''enable scenes of ief vero wit, nessed at South, un[ t,n, St. J| u |oand J>i it'ux, lU-uUm-'w at 81*. JSi'i van ic|oi(s that i2;> wi'ro diowno;].
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7983, 21 November 1905, Page 2
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184Appalling Wreck of a Steamer. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7983, 21 November 1905, Page 2
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