WRECK OF A SCHOONER AND LOSS OF 34 LIVES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3760, 15 January 1881, Page 3

WRECK OF A SCHOONER AND LOSS OF 34 LIVES.

The British and African Steam Navigation Company's royal mail steamer Corisco, which has arrived at Liverpool, reports that on her outward passage on the 17th October, when about three miles off Grand Bassa, she picked up four men clinging to a capsized canoe. The men, wo of whom vrere Liberians and two Uroomen, were in a very exhausted condition, having been in the water about fifteen hours. They stated that they were the sole survivors of the passengers and crew of a schooner which capsized on the previous day. She had 38.persons on board, and when they foundered many of those kept themselves up for sonic time by clinging to floating wreckage, but .ultimately they all sank with the exception of the four men named. The vessel belonged to Messrs M'Gill, of Cape Palmas, and one of the firm was on board at the time. He got hold of the canoe with the four other, and held on for some hours; until the Corisco was sighted, but he slipped off exhausted and was drowned a few minutes before bis companions were rescued. Mr Woods, the postmaster of Cape- Palmas, was amongst those who were lost.