A NILE DISASTER.
WRECK OF A FERRY STEAMER. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright, London, April 9. Reuter's Cairo correspondent states that a crowded ferry steamer sank in the Nile at midnight. It is believed that there were two hundred people drowned. LATER DETAILS. Cairo, April 9. An i excursion steamer with three hundred persons aboard collided with another steamer. The latter saved some of the excursion steamer's passengers, but. many were drowned. Seventeen bodies have already been recovered. The city has been plunged into mourning. Received 10, 11 p.m. Cairo, April 10. A terrible panic followed the collision. The number drowned is still unknown.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 241, 11 April 1912, Page 5
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103A NILE DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 241, 11 April 1912, Page 5
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