A TALE OF HORROR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 261, 10 December 1909, Page 2

A TALE OF HORROR.

WRECK OF A FRENCH VESSEL. GOES DOWN LIKE A STONE. By Cable—Press Association —CopyTin'l Port Darwin, December 0. Details of the; collision between th British-India liner Inda and the Met sageries Maritime Steadier La Seyne 0 November II aire to tyaad. The disaste occurred in the carln morning and bot vessels were well lighted. Tho French steamerwent to the bot torn in less than flveifiijnutes. Com mander Captain Conailhoe" lflst hit lift So suddenly was the catastropuc. tlia there was no time for orders to be give] on the French ship or for boats to U lowered. The vessel went down like a stone, ani the majority of the people were drown ed like rots in a trap. All rescued wen picked up by boats promptly put ou by the Onda. But if any were not pick ed up at the moment they must hav< met death from sharks or from drown ing. Glendinning, one of the sailors saved states that a good many were pullei down by sharks. Many of them weri about. Just as a Malay seaman wai being dragged into a boat a shark scizec one of his feet. An engineer beat tin brute off with a boatbook, and the Maluj was saved. Twenty-eight members of the native crew and fourteen native passengers wero rescued. Two hundred bags of mails were lost The collision occurred in the Rhic Straits, between the islands of Rhio and Batam, near Singapore. It was estimated that over 100 lives were lost.