WHITE ISLAND DISASTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 105, 26 September 1914, Page 4

WHITE ISLAND DISASTER.

* jWBECKAGS AT TAUKANGA. By Telegraph.—Presg Association. lyiulffligtt, September 25. Portions ox smashed houses, pari of c boat branded "Auukland flo. 3," bedsteads, a ohair, part of a tnum Une, woodwork, and also a portion of a wharf hare been found on the bqaoh sUboat two miles eaat of Mount Aiauoganui, at the entrance to Taiuraipja. Harbor. They era presumably, from White Island. Altogether there are Siereral torn of wreckage. I'urtflier search in feeing nod», EVIDENCE CAST UP BY THB SEA. NO SIGN OF THB VICTIMS.

Tauranga, Last Night. The ocean beach near iiount Maunganui is strewn for some three miles with debris of all descriptions, bearing unmistakable signs that it comes from White Island. The stuff would probably fill twenty or thirty drays. Pieces of scantling litter the shore by hundreds, and tram sleepers showing marks of rails laid to an 18in gauge. Scores of barrels, staves and pieces of barrel heads are scattered about. Manyi articles bear incrustations of sulphur, connecting the mass of wreckage with the grim story of White Island. A quantity of boat wreckage was also found, representing two or throe different classes of boats.

The scarcity of signs of house furniture suggests the possibility that the greater portion of the living quarters were simply buried where they stood, and the men with them.