PENGUIN TOTALLY WRECKED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 18, 15 February 1909, Page 2

PENGUIN TOTALLY WRECKED

SIM OFF CAPE TERAWHITI OVER SEVENTY LIVES LOST. ONLY 30 SURVIVORS THRILLING 1 ACCOUNTS OF THE WRECK STIRRING STORIES OF HEROISM

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Saturday Xight. Xi'ws was telephoned from Mukara early this morning that the Penguin, had gone ashore in the slight, and, it is feared, with much loss of life. The I'nion Company sent horsemen over the hills to the heath to gather news, and, later, sent blankets in motor cars. They were taken on by pack horses along the precipitous coast. Mi'Mcnamen's sheep stalicra. which is always the lirst place to get news hi disasters at Tcrawhiti, was visited by a man from the steamer, who brought the lirst news, and, a little later, six more arrived, hut it was not till Captain Xaylor reached town about mid-day that anything very dclinilu could be procured. The first versions said only 13 persons were saved, but the disaster was not as bad as that. A 'number of passengers who intended! coining over appeal to have been deterred by the rough weather, and thus no doubt diminished the deatli roll. The passengers were all put into boats. Of these three are upturned on shore, one is tossing about broken, and the lifth and last is missing. Tji-jUbs ibis boat turns up, no one who was in boats has been saved, except Mrs. Han nan,, of Xelson, and a youth named Matthews, of Spring Creek, Marlborough. it was hoped the last boat might have made Ohau Bay, but the Arahura, which went to the scene, visited the bay, and it was not there, nor had other vessels m the vicinity seen it.