THE HEROINE OF THE WRECK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 20, 17 February 1909, Page 2

THE HEROINE OF THE WRECK.

Wellington, Last -\igut. .Mrs. Iliinnuii, iin- Mm' woman in nit' i ciigiiiu coiupjay, uuil il nauoii escape ironi drowning »uuu-}«ir» ago H'liik- crossing um nmiaru bar in mi open liuai. i hi' cm 11 wa. capsized., .cil uir i,,,ii ( „iium liiul n 1,,.,,, snuggle mi- inc. niiL mi. siiccecdc. hi getting ■ .inliii-'c mic gu,-» in, ,1-ii-iim iii-ui»rruv.. Hiking Hie Indies ul her iiii-lund nuil .•■in-i.iii.ucii iiu burial Uicrc .Uienvard» -.1.' .-.; ,s s.u- \MII Ift 111 II li> vtrllltlgioit, -i:.- ci-llnl ll.n again live .11 t'K'toil.

liUl'l'lsii M.UI'A'iTIY. \ii.kki.id. I.i-i .\ighl. Hie I'riiui! .Miiiinler has received a calil. Iroin cue High I'oniinissioncr illmi mine, nun ihni. great sympathy Jui» in . a at home uuil me deepest Hilciesi, i vinecd ill the sail loiss of life ..nisei, In the wreck id the l'ci%uin,uiiii Unit uuiiicroiis cnipiiries were being inane* n.- to the names of those lost. Sir .loscpli Wind cabled ill reply, giving lliu whiilc of l in- names'and' idi'iitiliciilinn.

TllK LIST Ul>' TllK JJItUWN'KD. Wellington, Lasi Night. 'Today's enquiries have not altered liie mimbi-r ol those drowned by the wreck o,f the l't uguin, but llie name of KUiss .Iciinings, previously appearing in »the list of dead, must lie di-ietcd. She nad blinked to come on the fatal voyage, ,Iml did not join tlie vessel, and is uow .life at .Blenheim., This reilm-liiin, however, i* colilitci-,li;iliiiu-i'd liv llii-iuldition of the name of (.Mr. .lames' Collins, of Cluirieslon, iu-ar i\\est|iorl, who wiw travelling to l\'elli,i"ton hi attend a eonlcreuee uf toresicfs. His names did not iippcar in tb« iiiasscngcr list, but his presence on ?,miril' the steamer is jibiced bt-yond doubt. .Mr. Collins was 38 years of a«e aud unmarried.

TllK ItOU. CAIX. TOTAL DBO\V.\KD: 75. Wcllingt'im, Februarj 1«. As d'lir us can be ascertained, there was il lotal of 105 on board, of whom oulv 'III) were, saved.

Mrs. Evans, <>f tl»' Kapongn district, whii wns drowned, lmd toi on a vUlt to Nelson, mill should hnvo returned by the previous vessel. Missing that, «h« telegraphed ln'f husbivnd that she would ihi' Having bv the Penguin, and would Urrivo bv the'express oil Saturday night. "Icr husband was to have met her at Ktratford. ' , Mr I'. W. Harold travelled for Meairs Ucbibald Clark and Co., and stayed at Hie Grand Hotel when in Wellington, lie was unmarried, about 33 yearn of . age, mid was a native of Essex, England, from which lie ciunc about three Veins ago. ' Mr 11. Wharton Shaw, aged forty, was a sua of the proprietor of the Shaww Hope. Manufacturing Works, Binningham. He lived at Melbourne, and was on one of his periodical visits to New ZeaImid on business. His wife, a sister of , Mr Charles Honle, of the Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington, y left with three young children. They, live nt Hawthorn, Melbourne. One of the must distressing cases wan, that of Mr and Mrs Hale. Mr Clarence Hale was a popular 'representative of the well-known soft goods house of Meusrs Mackey, Logan, Caldwell and Co. He was transferred some live years ago by that linn from the Auckland district to , Wellington. His ground during the latter period consisted oi the Wnirarapa. aid lllenheim only h.tlic South Island. The late Mr Hale, who \viis a native of Auckland, was iibout twenty-five years of age, and was only married almost exactly a year ago, the ceremony taking place at St. Peter's Church, Wellington, oh Vehruarv Mb, IHOB.

The four Maguires were the children of Mr Tom Maguirc, a carter, of 11, llevans street, Newtown. Their mother died eighteen months ago, and their fatiier, who remarried recently, sent for thciu from St, Andrew's Orphauage, Xelson. Hose .Maguirc was aged 12, Ivy aged 10, Florence aged 5, und Wallace, aged 11 years.

The police had a good deal of money to look after on Saturday night. The clothing on many of the bodies contained money and valuables, ill was the most found in any one instance, while thard were eight rings on tne'Huge™ of one woman's hands. Ajl tne valuable* were carefully locked away in Mr MeMeaamill's house.

' An accident occurred, on tile mien at , Terawhiti on Sunday when preparation* were being made to bring the body of j Mr Jlolerol't to the city. The corpse w»« . I In ing tied to a horse, and the operation was just completed when the animal lashed out, kicking Mr Frederick Marsh, motor-car driver for Mr Pinnock, oji the e.iesl. Marsh was carried to MeMeaa- ' iniu's station, where he is being cared for ut present. It is believed that he had one or more ribs broken. Mn» received from Oteraimgi Bay shortly before midnight on Sunday indicated' that \ Marsh was unconscious, and in such a serious condition thai Dr. Henry was I urgently summoned. Walter I'ierrie, one of the (irauen saved said : "As the i.ist boat was putting oil' there was a young couple, Mr and .Mrs Ilnle, seen clinging to the engine-room skylighi, her husband with his arms round his wife's waist. The captain culled to the lady to get into the boat, but she said no, she would rather remain on the Penguin with her husband. Doth of them must have gone under which the Penguin's boiler burst • and lore the vessel in half, It was about II o'clock when she blew up." Mr Thomas Holland, a fireman, who was a imssenger from Picton, tells graphically of the sinking of the Penguin. "At nliout ten o'clock-1 felt the vessel give a shiver," he Sll i,l. «i goU up to see what was the matter, and found the water coming up into the steerage cabin from below. There was no panic when the boats were being lowered the sailors passing the women and children into them. The officers were superintending (he louung. The Penguin bows, lhe raft* were pushed overboard, an, immediately afterwards the Penguin' hot ,„,,d foremost into the sea like « rpiilo i,,,,,,,,,,, lnt „ „,„ watw a7)J was .sicked down a depth, but mv , elicit save ine, and 1 got o„ to one" f the rafts. The only screaming „ r sip, of right, was when the « fall* •• L vc J?. and the children fell „,„, „f ,Cb„a Soon after leaving the ship the »«' turned over but we helped each other ■pagan,. When we got into tl«> snrf Z\™LTt/ un ** turt,p ' ,mt ■«•