PERILS OF THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 2

PERILS OF THE SEA.

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THE KAWATIRI WRECK. i A TERRIBLE ORDEAL. SOME GRAPHIC NARRATIVES. Hobart, August 10. Various passengers who survived the Xawatiri wreck give liirilling narratives of the terrible ordeal through which they went. That supplied ny Constable VVardlcy gives dotailß of ihe experiences of the mon passengers and crew.

These were huddled up on iTie bridge of the sunken steamer the long night through. All were moro or less scantily clad. Simply appalling seas were breaking over them. At 2.30 in the morning till the lights went out. The men were penned in what looked like a certain death-trap. They could not see one another, but spoke words of encourage-' incut to one (mother. Only rarely, however,could their voices be heard through the awful gale. Before the ship settled down the men on the bridge could hear a knocking forward. One sailor managed to work his way along. He found eleven steerage passengers locked in, l.lie door being jammed. The door was broken open. The passengers inside wjre found standing in four feet of water. Their escape was very narrow., for they had not long been released when | the ship became almost totally sub merged. Several passengers were bat,- ! tered and bruised through swept i: against the rocks and being Btruek j by wreckage- | Further details of the disaster to the

women's boat show thnt for over en

hour after leaving the ship it was in imminent danger of being swamped. When it was being carried past 'be entrance, the women shrieked in agonising tones: "Help, help. Can't you come and help us?" hoping that the lighthouso.-keepcr would bear; but there was no visible or audible response. The wife of the keeper, who was in the boat, called, "Jack, help me." The try was heard by her husband on the bridge of the lighthouse. He was powerless to help, but shouted back. The occupants of the boat, however, did not hear him, and the craft was carried swiftly by the tide to the breakwater. ActingOfficer Hautive, who was in charge, threw the painter to two of the crew, who jumped on to the breakwater. They missed the rope. The boatswain and Hautive sprang out and I made it fast- Several passengers jumped out of the heavily bumping boat and endeavored to climb the steep side of the breakwater.

Mr Grundy, a passenger, who was on board with his wife and child, was knocked down. He lost hold of rtis child, which he never saw again. How-! ever, he saved his wife and another woman. Hantive saved Miss Fineh. The lighthouse-keeper arrived in time fo rescue another woman and two children. iMrs Hooper and her child wire seen to be in the water drifting away with tho tide. No help could be given.

THE WRECK OP THE YSABEL. ■ THE VERDICT OF THE INQUIRY. Received lfith, 11.35 p.m. Sydney, August Mi. The Court found Captain Legge, flic, master, and Richard Finch, the mate, responsible for the wreck of the Ysabel, and ordered them to show cause why their certificates should not be dealt with.

BARQUE SHORT OF PROVISIONS. NARROW ESCAPE OF BOAT'S CREW Wellington, August 16. The Marine Department has received a report of the narrow escape from drowning of the captain, second mate, and three seamen of the. barque Palof.is, in Guard'sßay on Wednesday last. The vessel, which was bound from Clarence River to Wellington, put into Guard's Bay on Monday for shelter. On Wednesday Captain Cozens and the second mate and three sailors put iff for'TOe nSore in the lifeboat to obtain provisions. A Bquall capsized the boat, but all the men managed to scramble on to the bottom of the craft. They remained thus until she drifted ashore on Forsyth Island. The party stayed on the rocks till night and on the following day they were back to the vessel. The captain was mach| knocked about. One of the men is laid up. Medical assistance and food have been sent from Picton.

THE CONSTANCE CRAIG. BELIEVED TO BE LOST. WRECKAGE AT GREAT BARRIER. Per Press Association. Auckland, August 16. Tho Collector of Customs has received a communication from a resident at Awanga, Great Barrier Island, as follows: "T have picked up several pieces of wreckage on the south-east side of the Great Barrier. There 'were souie pieces of timber, broken, with large letters. When put together they had on one side Margarita, and on the reverse side Constance Craig. Also there wis the leg of a table, the piece of the end of a table and a chock for holding a boat on deck, one 14-feet paddle and sundry bits of timber; also a piece of skylight." This, taken with the recent report that the Constance Craig's boat was found washed ashore at Hokianga is regarded as pretty conclusive proof of the wreck of that vessel, A steamer is being despatched to search the island in the hope of finding the crew.

THE CREW OF THE MISSING VESSEL.

Per Press Association. Gisborne, August 16. Th" Constance Craig was owned by Captain Kennedy and Mr E. J. Crisp, of Gisborne. The crew were: — Captain—l'inlay Peterson (Sydney). Mate—E. Peterson (Sydney). Second Mate—H. Lewis (Anglesca), aged 4S. McDonald, A.B. If. Hansen, aged 28. T. Brov.n (Perth), 26. M. Keogh (Liverpool),( 24. ,1. Nelson, sailmaker (Liverpool), aged 46. A. Stein. R. Roberts. T. Maekin, cook and steward. A. Mallun, Norway, 34. The Constance Craig was formerly known as the Marguerita. The following joined her here to replace others transferred to the barquetine lima:— Lewis, Mallan, Hainson, Brown, Keogh and Nelson. The. vessel was insured for £2500 in the North Queensland office, and the loss would be quite £2OOO above that. When last hero IJic-Constr.nee Craig was with a complete outfit of new sails.Thtr-fiht" suit having suffered damage during a storm. Mr Bridger, chief officer, left her at Gisbomc to go up for examination, and was to join the barque at Hokianga.

LAST SIGHTED OFF HOIvIANGA. Auckland, August 10. The following has been received by Mr Chrisp, one of tin owners of the vessol at present in Auckland, from Mr Martin, harbormaster and pilot at Hokianga:— ''The barque sighted on July 2G and reported was painted the Craig colors, grey with black ports. No signals were exchanged. I know the old Margarita well, and as the Marjorie Craig, the only vessel I could have mistaken her for, is here, and Captain Campbell says that lio did not leave the Wade on that date, and was not within GO miles of here until Saturday night last, I feel confident it was the Constance Craig X sa,w. If she has had the'hard winds ■which hav>; prevailed here, viz., South-east and east, until August Blh, and we-l- y since, then she should have shown up again unless the vessel has been disabled." Mr H. M. Reeves, having resigned the editorship of the Chnistehurch Star owi isr to ill-health, Mr Hubert Mitchell, chief reporter of the Lyttclton Times, has been appointed to till thev acanev. Mr .las. Drnnimond will assume the position of chief reporter of the Lyttelton Tiines. Wellington, August 10. Captain Sclnillis, of the barquimtina I Mary Isabel, now in Wellington, was formerly master of the Constance Craig.

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He says the captain of the latter vessel was Finlay Morrison, not Peterson. . He was a native of Orkney Islands, and leaves a wife ad two children now in > •};! I Melbourne. ' » THE LOSS OF THE INGLEBORG. | CAPTAIN FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUST. > Dunedin, August 16, While the Ingleborg was at Dunedin, i Captain Schmidt told Mr Moller, Danish * ' ' Consul, that the youth Gottfriedson was > well co)inected at Copenhagen, his father 1 being captain of a steamer trading be. . tween Denmark and Iqeland. 3 Just before the Ingleborg left Catte-, ■- t gat, Captain Schmidt received a letter , f from Captain Gottfriedson, asking bin jtffflt >to keep an eye on the lad, and the cables ' 'l'-'i g show how faithfully he tried to execute e the trust. • ffi n The vessel was insured for £4OOO. , ; o Captain Schmidt had an eighth share 'J J b- id her. V