SHIPPING CASUALTIES.
Stdnby, Nov. 11. Particulars of the foundering of the Turkish warship Ertogroul have reached here. It appears that everything went well during the gale until an explosion of a boiler rent the vessel in pieces. Everyone on board lost their self-control, and no sooner were the boats launched than they were washed away. Ali Bey jumped overboard, and Osman followed his example, hat was struck on the bead by a spar. Many of those on beard managed to reach the shore, where they were afterwards found suffering from broken limbs and other injuries. The German gunboat Wolf rendered what assistance was possible. All the executive officers were drowned. Nautical authorities are confident the vessel struck on a rock, and the sudden inrush of water exploded the bailers. Not a vestige of wreckage was left. Another surmise is that the magazine exploded, and not the boilers. The steamer Musasha Mari, bound to Yokohama to load coal for Australia, foundered in the same gale, and only one man was rescued out of sixtysix on beard. A sailing vessel belonging to the same line was also wrecked, and twentyone lives lost.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2124, 13 November 1890, Page 3
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190SHIPPING CASUALTIES. Temuka Leader, Issue 2124, 13 November 1890, Page 3
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