HURRICANE OFF IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1916, Page 5

HURRICANE OFF IRELAND.

TWO STEAMERS COLLIDE. ONLY ONE SURVIVOR. OVER NINETY LIVES LOST. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association, Received Nov. 5, 5.3 p.m, London, > T ev. I. '• Wreckage from five ships l'.?.<> bceni washed ashore from .ihs Bristol Chacnel. Shortly after leaving for Holyhead, in a heavy gale, tha Xorth.-Wajtj.rn Eailn way Compaily's steamer Conncroarro, collid«d with the sleame- R2ir;evc;; our/ sido Carlingford bar. Both vewrf* Mr.lt and only one survivor h y?t rjporleil Many bodies have been wished whorr on the County Down cowl. The Connemarra carrbd 51 pa?f?si»sr) and 80 of a crew, It is baliev-rd thct al* have perished. The whole of the Retriever* crew of 4 thirteen, with, ono exception, wen drowned. It was impossible to launch fc<»*i owing to the hurrica<ne. FORTY-THREE BODIES RECOVERED, The sole survivor of the Retriever U a seaman, who drifted ashore on an up J turned boat. He states that the Re tricver was unmanageable in the galej and rammed the Connemara, Tlio lattter's crew ■ numbered thirty, not! eighty. She had a large cargo of horses and cattle. Forty-three ■ bodieß ; have fceenl recovered-'' '■''.'.•...' -