ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8297, 28 November 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER.

SLIPS IN A DOCK

ENORMOUS DISPLACEMENT OP WATER.

TWO MEN MISSING!

SEVERAL SERIOUSLY INJURED.

JBy Telegraph—Press Association

AUCKLAND, November 27. An aoo'dent happened while the Shaw Savill and Albion Company's steamer Marnari was being docked. A 9 the water subsided it is pre--med that the bloaks gava way, fit.. f ho steamer slipped forward, and u enormous displacement oauaiug »•- a 'lock, of wator Is W* v were employed! Nearly iMS > scraping tho sides. When the vessel oante'd Wftw was level with the rolling ohodfea; Ihe uudden subfeidenoe caused a huge wave to sweep up and down the dock, the fifty ui«3ii being bashed about among tbo floating pontoons and shofoSi Many were daahed against the concrete aides of the dock, then car ried against the vessel; Two single men, named R. Clark and W. May, fealdeVs? of Ponsonby, are missing. They were working oW ttfo rolling chocks, ana it is surmised' they are below these,' but divers have failed to find them. It would probably Itave been a more ' serious acoidant but for tbe fact that most of the shores retained their position, thus keeping the vessel upright; otherwise many more would have been crushed. 'l'hcee injured ai'e 1 : Franklyn, W. Knox, W, Taylor, Western (seriously), J. Mayall (seriously). Langley (two), Kenneth Scott, Jules Poyaton, Carson, G. Evans, S. Aus- . tin, J. Andersop, J. Wilson, T. Olaika, G. Smith (both legs fractured), Carr, ftlonaghan, Flanigan, and S. S. Grangrove.