DISASTERS AT SEA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8293, 23 November 1906, Page 5

DISASTERS AT SEA.

\ (Per Mail Steamer Ventura.) KEY WEST, October 20. The steamer Jennie, Captain Dudioh, bound from gulf ports for Genoa, oalled at Key West to laud 49 men picked up near the Bahamas coast, 160 miles from Key West. The men were paj't of a force of 350 workinqmen belonging to barge 4, which bad been engaged on the coast in extension work. Most of the others in the barge were either killed or drowned in the storm. Nine other barges of the name "oharaofcer and crowded with work-' ingmen, were eugaged in extension work at the. time of the storm. No news has been received of them, and it Is feared that they all have been lost. W. P. Dusenbnry, one of the engineers of barge No. 4, who was saved by the steamship Jennie, says that the barge was sunk by the storm at five o'clock on Thursday morning. Oue hour later the house boat attached to the barge went to pieces iu the raging sea, and 40 men were killed in the wreck. SAN JUAN, October 19. The Red Star Line steamer Philadelphia, from La Guayra, Venezuela, for New York, arrived here to-day, 48 hours latu. Hsr oaptain reports that a Dutch steamer was lost in the oyolone at a point betweeu Caracas and La Guayra. The Philadelphia encountered the oyolone upon leaving the harbour at La Guayra on Monday. She was blown ashore and slightly damaged. This and the heavy weather accounted for her delay in reaohing port.