The Loch Ard Disaster.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2925, 1 July 1878, Page 2

The Loch Ard Disaster.

i Alluding, to a visit to the lite of tbfc sad event the Gaelong Adrertiier says:—There is , ©very, probability of a famine taking place on j the coast, as on Wednesday afternoon then ! were fully throe hundred persons assembled on the cliffs, and food was extremely scarce. Some persons who had a few loaves of bread in their traps obtnincd any price they- liked to ask fora loaf, and flour •anr.ot, be purchased. The road from Cimperdown. to- the in* hospitable shore was lined on Wednesday - wiih pedestrians going to the wreck, the - majority being swaj»men proceeding to the wreck for the purpose of ascertaining whr.fc at- ■ tides can be ; easily stowed away: Besides the want of food-there it a great scarcity of water, the fluid obtainable being brackish. The country' between Camperdown and the coast is exceedingly rough,,and parts of the roads to the wreck are almost impassable. The charge for conveyance to the.coast and k-aok is H9 for each person. '■ The Loch Ard appears to have foundered 1 in 16 fathoms of water, for there is only a small portion.of the mizzen risible above the surface of. the water. The ship lies about a quarter of a mile from the main land, but she i» close to a small island with frowning cliffs liilly 200 feet in height, - against which the yardi, of fche ship appear to have grazed as she was tossed by the meroilen waves. „ 1 ■'.