A STEAMER WRECKED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 96, 13 October 1911, Page 5

A STEAMER WRECKED.

RUNS ASHORE IX A TOG. ''GFITEEN LIVES LOST. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 12, 0.25 p.m. Sydney, October 12. The steamer MacLeay is ashore at Broughton Island. Particulars are meagre. It is feared she is a total wreck and that many lives have boon lost. Two sailors came ashore on planks. Tt is feared the vessel is breaking up. Wreckage is coming a.shore near Newcastle from, it is supposed, the MacLeay. Two tugs have been despatched to Broughton Island. No passengers were aboard the MacLeay, but the crew numbered twenty. Only two are. known to have been saved. The MacLeay is a vessel of 400 tons, and belonged to the North Coast Company. She was bound from Newcastle to Clarence River, and is supposed to have foundered in a fog.

A TERRIFIC IMPACT. STEAMER TURNS TURTLE. Received 13, 1.10 a.m. Sydney, October 12. A disaster in connection with the MacLeay appears to be certain. A message from Tea Party (a station near Port Stevens.) states that the body of Jones, a steward of the MacLeay, was washed up. The survivors, named Swanney and Peterson, ablebodied seamen, declare that at 8 o'clock last night in a fog, while the first officer was on the bridge, the vessel struck a rock. The impact Was terrific, and the steamer heeled over and practically ''turned turtle" before she sank. The survivors accompanied a search party, which is not expected back before the morning.