A CORPSE-STREWN STRAND

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

A CORPSE-STREWN STRAND

WHAT TIJE RESCUERS SAW. BEACU STREWN "WITH WRECKAGE WRECKAGE DISTRIBUTED OVER LAND AND WATER. NOT A YESTKJE OE VESSEL REMAINS. fixdixg the uudies. Wollinyton, Saturday Night Late this afternoon twenty-six bodies liad come ashore or were in sight in the sura. For two miles the beach is strewn Willi wreckage. Pieces of the vessel, eubhis, seats, cushions and upholstejjy of every kind ate floating about in the water, and distributed over the sands. Not a, vestige of the vessel itself remains. It is absolutely impossible to determine where she sank. The bodies, of which sixteen or seventeen ha-ve already Iweu recovered, are earning ashoro in n little bay to the west of McMciUuncn's Terawhiti homestead. The sight on the bench is one that would never be forgotteif. Three life-boats arc thrown up on the ssiud and one raft is also high and dry. Wreckage and the fourth boat are FU)ATL\<.: ABOUT IX THE BREAKERS. •lust round a forbidding-looking bluff wa* discovered the body of a little girl, about 12 or 13 years of age. A little further on was th< f body of a middleaged man, and still a few yards further away was the corpse 01 an elderly woman, apparently some 45 or f>o years of age. .Insi past the second lifeboat was seen the body of a young, man wearing a light grey suit and apparently between 17 and IS years of age. Still further ou the body of a woman, clothed in a blue costume, and apparently between '\7> and 40 years of age. was 'ashore. There was also on tbo beach the body of a man, about forty or fifty yeais of age. Another corpse was that of a fireman. A young man who was lying dead on the beach "was evidently the same passenger whom Captain Xaylor endeavored to save Oil an upturned boat that he was clinging to.