SHIPPING DISASTERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8473, 27 June 1907, Page 5

SHIPPING DISASTERS.

WRECK OF A LINER.

NINETY LIVES LOST. Received June 26, 8.30 a.m. VALPARAISO, June 25. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Santiago, which left Corral, in Chili, with her engines partly disabled from the effect of a recent storm, has been wrecked in a heavy squall fifty miles north of Corral. One passenger and one officer are saved. It is feared that three passengers and the rest of the crew, numbering eighty-seven persons, have perished. (The Santiago was a steel fourmasted screw steamer of 2,953 tons, built in 1889 at Barrow. Her dimensions were—Length. 350 ft, breadth 45ft 2in, depth 22ft sin. Puerto de Corral is about 550 miles south of Valparaiso.)

BOAT DASHED ON THE ROCKS.

Received June 26, 9.14 a.m. VALPARAISO, June 25. One of the Santiago's boats drifted about for several clays before it was clashed to pieces on the rocks.

THE EVERTON GRANGE. Received June 26, 8.30 a.m. CAPETOWN, June 26. Efforts to reduce the water in the fore-peak of the Everton Grange, which struck sunken rocks at Duyker Point, near Capetown, have failed. Part of the cargo is now being discharged, in order that the vessel may be put into dry dock.

SCOW WRECKED. Received June 26, 3.4 p.m. SYDNEY. June 2G. A sunken vessel, with a mast projecting, was discovered half a mile from North Botany Heads The vessel ia believed to be the Sydney-owned scow Arab, which left port on Sunday for Jervis Bay. All hands are supposed to have been drowned Received June 26, 4.27 p.m. SYDNEY, June 26. The Arab was commanded by Captain Farrell and carried four other hands, named Sweholm, Shostrom, Chapman and Meyer. It is uncertain, however, whether one had not been left behind in Sydney.