Deadly Minefields

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 87, 8 September 1914, Page 5

Deadly Minefields

ANOTHER VESSEL SUNK. -

London, September fl. 1

An exchange telegram states that the Wilson liner Kono, with 300 refugees from Hull, hound to Russia, struck a mine, forty miles off Shields. Eighty, were drowned. Trawlers landed 200 of the survivors at Grimsby, where many were sent to hospital. The Press Bureau confirms the foundering of the Rono. It states that twenty Russian emigrants were lost. ,

PANIC AMONG THE PASSENGERS, '•

THE CREW PiEiIAIN CALiL

BRAVE FISHERMEN.

Received 7, 9.20 p.m.

London, Sept. 7 (morning), i The liono was blown up after voyaging for 12 hours from Hull. The place is not specified. The explosion occurred under the baggage-room, where several baggage-sorters were killed. TJie baggage was blown high in the air. Many, of the passengers worn panic-stricken. Numbers jumped overboard, and others rushed to the boats, impeding the crew. Three boats overturned before they reached the water. One was overcrowded, and capsized. The . crew behavedcalmly. Practically all the women and children were saved. . After the disaster the whißtle wag conn tinuously blown, attracting Grimsby, trawlers, which rushed to the vessel's assistance regardless of mine peril. The Rono's passengers were not reftfy gees. They came from America.