A HARBOR SMASH.
o DEPARTING LINER CAUSES GREAT DAMAGE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 28, 7.15 p.m. New York, May 28. The steamer Vaterland, when leaving here, overturned a coal barge and dragged two tugboats from their berths. When backing out she nearly crashed into two large passenger steamers. ■ Then she swung towards the pier. Her screws churning sucked the water away from the pier, causing the hawsers of ' two steamers to snap and force them 1 against the bulkheads, smashing their •' own rails and also the,pier rails. The 1 Vaterland proceeded on her voyage after ' inflicting damage in the neighborhood of £BOOO. 2 i
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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106A HARBOR SMASH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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