A STEAMER SUNK
during tropical HURRICANE. By Telegraph.—Press Am.—Copyright, , Received Sept. 21, <5.5 p.m. » York, Sept. 19. A dispatch from Key Wert retorts that the steamer Valbenera, bound from Spam to Havana, is believed to bare been sunk after grounding on the quicksand at Half Moon Key. The vessel, which is said to have carried 300 passeagersi and crew, arrived off Morro Castle on September 9, when a tropical hurricane was raging, and she wa» compelled to put out to sea to await an abatement, has not been seeu since, though feeole wireless signals were received. A later message reports that divert discovered a sunken wreck, belisted to be the Valbenera. The divers said they could distinguish the name clearly, but found no trace of the crew or paEscS* get-*. ' , Two Cuban gunboats searching along w the northern shore of Cuba and tha Bahamas found no sign of the vesael.-t Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1919, Page 4
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154A STEAMER SUNK Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1919, Page 4
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