PASSENGERS SWEPT OVERBOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8002, 13 December 1905, Page 3

PASSENGERS SWEPT OVERBOARD.

I>uring the voyage of the (.'miuid liner a huge wave swept over the vi-ssel <kx* she was passing the (»raml Ranks of Newfoundland, on Oct. 11. The Campania jwas making full headway. -ami the decks were crowded. Thv steerage deck was full of Merrymakers. Suddenly the steamer lurched to port and seooj>ed up an enormous sea. The wave come | on l*oard amidships on the port side, ami swept clean across the steerage | deck. I The steamer's sidy was buried so deeply that the passengers \on the I deck ah've were submerged to the waists as the tyniueuse volume of water roiled aft ami then surg\*d forward. All »he passengers on Ihe upi!l»r deck, clinging to supports, were saved, hut the irn*sist ible power of the waters flowed over the st<eragv deck, and sweeping towards the forward part of the ship, carried everything before it. The force of | the cashing ualerx Mna*h»-d a door I in'the rail, ami through this opening] five 'helpless creatun-s were swept to death. | The loss of life would have been much greater but for tire assistance of a steward and stewardess, who, grasping the |situat i< n. shouted t fl the passengers to hold on to anything solid, ami -dashed forward in time to rescue some who were being swept tf ward the opening. The moment after the ship 'had lighN il Jierself was cue of great confusion. People were l\ing'in<all positioits on the deck. man.\ had luvn hnrKd against the rails and stanchion*, and were Iradly iniured. j,t!tl several!ha<l arms and legs broken. The mass of water cn*ated havoc »m the upper deck, where, fortunately, tho passengers Were fewer. F.Wryt hing movable wan suept about, but the occupants of the d«*ek were not injured. The ship's hospital was filled to overflowing, and anany <>f the slightly Inhired had to 'ltd treated in their berths. Fortunately, a doctor in the first icahinf offered Ms services and, with the Campania's surgeon, did what was) possible for those who