LOST IN PACIFIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1918, Page 5

LOST IN PACIFIC.

SOME OP CASTAWAYS REACH. DOMINION. Auckland July 29„ Captain Vaughan and two of the crew of the barque John Murray,' which was wrecked at Maiden Island, arrived by the Makura, en route to Australia, Captain Vaughan said that on May 21, at night, the weather being fine, a terrific crash threw the crew off their feet. Though it was pitch dark, he saw white foam on a reef amidships. The main topgallant mast crashed on to the deck, followed by the fore topmast. An examination showed that the barque's bottoi>: wa.B stove in. Two boats were smartly launched, and' the crew landed on an island which w.tj only ten feet above the water. Two hours later the vessel, which broke > rapidly, disappeared entirely. "We traversed the island," sft.M CY::>tain Vaughan, "and met the nsanagi.-, Mr. Grice, who fed and hov.::cd the m™. doing everything possible for their comfort. Nineteen days later c!.e Larscn crashed 011 the same vas." i;u mediately 011 top of the-John Murray. "The Annie Larson's crew hiiuled s'r.,\ly, and joined the Jolui Murray's erovv' Captain Vaughan waited for a seTicoiter which was expected ii: tv.-snl days. Then he provisioned ;!)? and sailed"with two ssatsseii'f.ir • Island, and arrived tliera ;uut r, vY ; teen-days- voyage.- They xalfsM- : , hardship, except for 1.-t-nj; soaked hr continuous lieavv rain, They v.er" ! eared tof lit Ka»t<i»g lstaftd iili a unwuiar bound for Sydney picked them »"