MARINE CALAMITY.
TWO STEAMERS COLLIDE
SEKIOUS LOSS OF LIFE.
I Received August 17, 9.20 a.ir. MADRID, August 16. | During a fog the German steamer Elsa collided with the Spanish steamer Martos thirty-two milas west of Tarifa, in the extreme south of Spain and fifteen miles west-suuth-west of Gibraltar. The Martos was sunk and thirtytwo of her passengers and seven of the ciew drowned. The Eka put in at Gibraltar. She is badly damaged.
FURTHER DETAILS.
FORTY-FIVE LIVES LUST
; Received Last MADRID, August 17. The steamer Mattus sank in two minutes. Forty-five persons were drowned, including a mother and three children, who wtie travelling in the saloon. The third-class passengers were principally fishermen, with their wives and children The captiir, who was a septuagenarian, went down standing on the bridge. One survivor swam for an hour. He was twice sucked under by a whirlpool. The Elsa saved sixty-five of the passengers and crew.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10070, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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152MARINE CALAMITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10070, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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