WELLINGTON.
This day. A fatal. accident occurred about one o'clock this morning, when the hulk Eli Whitney, with eight hundred tons of coal aboard, sunk in the harbor in deep water, about a hundred yards from the wharf. The man in charge, Davey, was aroused by his wife, a young woman only sixteen years old, hearing a rush of water in the hold. He got his wife and baby hurriedly on deck, but had no time to dress, and had just time to place them and himself on a large plank when the hulk disappeared. They drifted on the plank to the baths at the south end of the harbor, where the man, much exhausted, dragged himself to a neighboring house for assistance. His wife was found dead, but the baby is missing —no doubt drowned. A furious northerly gale was blowing at the time, and it was intensely dark. The hulk carried no light. A report is current that the steamer Taupo, which left for Picton a little after midnight, ran into the hulk. The steamer was rery near it, and appeared to remain alongside for a few minutes, then steamed away. The hulk sunk about twenty minutes after the supposed collision. The hulk is not insured. She belongs to Captain Williams.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2539, 24 February 1877, Page 2
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213WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2539, 24 February 1877, Page 2
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