SHIPPING WRECKS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 14 February 1907, Page 3

SHIPPING WRECKS.

STEAMERS IN COLLISION. PASSENGER BO IT SINKS IN 10 MINUTES, NEARLY 21,) Heeeived 13, 11.5' i p.m. New \ okk, February 111. The steamer Larehmont, bmml from Providence to New York, collided witli the collier Harry Knowlcton oil' Quonchontang at midnight on Monday The Larehmont sank in ten umutes. I She carried 150 to 2IW passengers, and a crew of 30. Captain MacVey, ana 19 survivors, reached Clock Island, after suffering fearfully from intense cold. It is feared the rest have perished.

I DANISH SCHOONER LOST, WRECKED AT THE CiUZiiTS. CREW SAFE ON THE ISLANDS. CAPTAIN REACHES MELBOURNE, Received 11, 12.58 a.m. Melbourne, February 13 The Germa i s'lip Di-rnvt '; 1 , iro:n Philadelphia to -Japan, signalled to Quecnscliff thai she had ship-wreeked mariners aboard. A tug went out and brought ashore Captiin Ree and two sailors belonging to the Danish schooner Catherine, which was wrecked at the Crozet Islands on December llth. All hands are safe on the Island. The captain and two men left in one of the ship's boats to get assistance, anl were at sea nine days when picked up by the Deruyter. Crozet Islands are an uninhabited group lying m the Southern Lilian Ocean, a considerable distance south of the usual shipping track ]