COLLISIONS AT SEA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 15 February 1907, Page 5

COLLISIONS AT SEA.

THE SINKING OF THE LARCHMONT. Received February 14, 9.13 a.m. NEW YORK, February 13. Additional particulars in connection with the collision between the steamer Larchmont and the collier Henry Knowleton, off Quonochontang, a lagoon on the coast of Rhode Island State, show that amid a scene of terror, as the Larchmont sank, ten female Salvationists, kneeling on the deck, sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The nineteen survivors were severely frost-bitten. The spray coated them with ice. Thirty bodies, encased in ice, have been recovered on the^beach. Fourteen others, frozen to death, ■were found drifting in boats. Received February 14, 10.34 p.m. NEW YORK, February 14. The men and women fought fiercely for places in the Larchmont's boats. Many were drowned. One boat contained nine, and of these seven were 'frozen to death, one cut his throat, and one waded ashore. ANOTHER COLLISION. Received February 14, 10.43 p.m. GIBRALTAR, February 14. The battleships Albermarle and Commonwealth collided 150 miles north of Lisbon, and proceeded to Gibraltar for repairs. There were no fatalities.