TOTAL WRECK OF TWO STEAMERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1586, 24 May 1887, Page 4

TOTAL WRECK OF TWO STEAMERS.

GBEAT LOSS OP LIFE. Napier, May 22. The 8,8. "Go-ahead went ashore at Cape Kidnappers at two o'clock on Friday morning and is now a total wreck. All on board were saved except a fireman named Gunning, who would not leave the Bhip in the boat when all the others went off, fearing the boat could not live in the sea. Some time afterwards, at low water, he attempted to swim. ashore, but was drow,ned half way to the beach. The crew and passengers who escaped made their way to Clif'on Station, where everything possible for their comfort was done. The accident was due to the terrible thick weather, which rendered it impossible to see the land, the: vessel being in the breakers before it was known anythiog was wrong. If there had been a light on or near the Kidnappers the disaster could not have happened. The vessel is bottom upwards and nearly all broken up. News has also reached here of the wreck of the steamer Sir Donald, belonging to the port of Napier. She has gone ashore about five miles north of Gisborne and broken up completely. It is feared that all the lives were lost. The news has caused quite a gloom in Napier, already sufficiently saddened by the disaster to the Boojum lust week when endeavoring to succor the ill-fated Northumberland.