WRECKED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 October 1907, Page 5

WRECKED.

KUMBER OF SAILORS DROWSED. SAD PLIGHT OK SURVIVORS. JHE FATE OF MAN* INCER'I-UN. llobart, October ISThe Swedish ship "V. fU^ v vl'"\vl last night thc S U'ai.,.r which brought a.x oi

"rhe ship struck near Green l->Und daring ft heavy ttorni. _„u* The vessel was found to 'cb"-o tighteen feet from the cliffs oi U e mainland. She drifted fun.itr shore. , . , Within hall an hour she broke up. Tremendous seas were running. Some of the crew, which iiumbcied seventeen, manag.d to b.w- r boats. Eight got ino one and thai into tbe other. , , , ,r - As the boat-8 reached the beaca tlK'v were dashed to pieces • One of the men in them was drownten men who reached the sGore irere joined by three of those who had been left on the ship, who had swam (Lahore. Ihe three who remained on the ship tost their lives. 51 "'t One of them was on a portion of the jrreck for four days before he dropped into the sea. The thirteen men on the ghore wandered alout in search of food, (they found only a few shellfish. At length they discovered a boat, and lix oi them embarked on Monday They reached Muatouyker, Lut were only jut in time, for the boat swamped Mthey landed. They were received and hospitably treated at the lighthouse. Those rescued entertain grave fears tor the gifety of the feven men left Mar the wreck. They have been .without food for eight days and when the boat left them, they were in a bad conSition, especially tha captain. {The Koonookarra left last night to March for the missing men. Another account of the wreck states that) two seamen, the carpenter, the ' steward Olsen, and the cook, Jacobsne, ' srnre drowned. I