SHIPPING DISASTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 29 March 1911, Page 5

SHIPPING DISASTER.

THE WRECKAGE COMING ASHORE.

PATHETIC SCENES IN BRISBANE.

United Press Association —By

(Received Last Night, 8.30 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, March 28,

The worst is new feared concerning the Adelaide Steam Ship Company's steamer Yongala, overdue from.Mackay to Townsville, and on which there were about 150 .souls.

The cargo of the vessel is being washed ashore at Cape Bowling Green.

ine wreckage found consists of bags of chaff, pollard, bran and pumpkins. This has been recognised. as part of the cargo shipped in the lower hold of the Yongala at Brisbane. A later message reports that further wreckage, including oil drums, baskets, and timber, have drifted ashore at Cleveland Bay.

Captains of vessels arriving at Brisbane report that there was a severe cyclonic storm, with blinding rain, at the time the Yongala was off Dent Island, where she was last sighted. The island is beset by reefs. The captains do not take a hopeful view of the probability of the steamer .having been able to head out seaward.

The owners are hopeful, however. The. Yongala is sfaunch and well found, and in charge of an experienced captain. They hold the opinion that the machinery;, may hare broken down, or that the vessel is sheltering among the outlying islands of the Barrier Reef. Besides seven hundred tons of coal, there is an equal quantity of cargo aboard. The passengers include ten ' from Sydney.' ■■ ' '.,' / ■■■.■'•'. > ; -, ( .;v : ' y K •■■;■*' " ••-■&■ ■•-'. '"■.#•.■ ■.;-.•;■■! cr&Sv:'\ ''•-.?':

(Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, Last Night,

The Yongala's crew consisted, of seventy-one, and <v,as 'as;,follows: — , Captain Knight; first ' mate, Williams ; second matt:', Harden: third mate, Cameron; purser, Roberts; carpenter, Miller; boatswain, Mackenzie; seamen, McGinnes, Jones, Baylon, Woods, Gale, Lewis, Freeston, Johnston, Walsh, McDonald, j Merchant, McDonald, Paton; engin-s eers, Parsons (first), Hamilton (sec- J ond), Donaldson (third), Miller

(fourth), Laurence (fifth); Nelson (donkeyman); firemen, Galvin, Donachi, Voight, Uggdahl, Todd,'Metcalfe, Diamond, Gumbleton, ;Norric, Daveson, Lellico, Gallagher, Reich, Goldsmith; steAvardesses, English,. Lambrick, Andrew; stewards; Maw~ by (chief), Harris (second), Rintone, Sheplin,Reid, Cross, Morrispli, Sullivan, Ward, Craig, Finlay, Armstrong,. Oostello, Raskin, J. Cook, Gordon, Fox: storekeeper, Emmer-' eon; pantryman, Elliott; cooks, West (chief), Guneval ("second), Robertson (third); butcher, McPher■son; baker, Marah: sruillerynian, Houston; boys, Howard, McNamar.a, and Doyle. . ; : The passenger list was as follows: From Sydney: Mainwaring, Carraroo, Kearesos (latter two Italians), Misses Buxton, and Butler, Mesdames Murray, three children and maid. From Brisbane: Mesdames Reath', Davids, Rooney, Elsdale, Woodward,. 1 Lin* Marboy, Misses Rooney, Murray, Buxton, Carroll, Shannon ., - McGee, t Messrs Reath, Rooney, Detce, Parton, Stack, Elsdivlej"• '*•■ V'oriey, Fulton,' Must, Lin,' Schneider, Buckenridge, Davis, Barclay, Jolley, Manmey, Real, Bonnarder, and thirty-one in I the second saloon. j '■' ■ • I

SUPPOSED HIDDEN ROCK. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock) BMSRAAE, March 28. The fact that the cargo which is coming ashore is from the lower hold of the Yongala is taken to indicate that the vessel struck a hidden rock,' and ripped ' hor -bottom" out. v :j ' • ■: —: ■ ■ . i

AWAITING THE NEWS. ' jj

ANXIOUS CROWDS. f SOME PATHETIC SCENES.

Received This Morning, 12.10 o'clock

BRISBANE, March 28. j Throughout the day crowds of-re-latives of those aboard the Yongala besieged the Adelaide Company's office and the newspaper offices, awaiting tidings. When the news of the finding of wreckage was posted, some pathetic scenes occurred. Several search steamers are out. A careful examination of the reefs of the islands in the vicinity of the supposed wreck has been or- \ dered, for possible survivors. A mimbv'r of passengers were aboard the vessel, but it is not de- | finitely known how if any, landed at* Macka'y. Thirty-one were given in tho second saloon when leaving Brisbane. These probably included at least two of those in .tne Sydney list. ■■Little'is known as to the identity bf the passengers. . Mr Rooney is the head pf a Towns' ville firm of timber merchant-. Mrs

STEAMER YONGALA MISSING.

Electric Telegraph—Copyright

"' ' THE DECK"FITTINGS

Davids-is the ..wife of ,! the general manager of • the - Mulgrave Sugar Mill. Miss Uhr is the matron and Miss Buxton a nurse at the Townsville Hospital. Mr Stack is the Adelaide Steam Ship Company's accountant, at Townsville.

OFFICERS' THEORIES,

VESSEL SUPPOSED TO HAVE STRUCK THE ROCKS.

NO HOPE FOR THE PASSENGERS

(Received This Morning, 1.5 o'clock.)

MELBOURNE, March 28

The General Manager of the Adelaide Company states that the Yongala was one of the latest vessels of the fleet. She was -alued at £90,000. The insurances are in the vicinity of £60,000. She had about 1800 tons of cargo aboard, which is believed to have been insured.

' The Company's captains, interviewed, expressed the c.pinion that the vessel has struck a THir in thp' Flinder's Channel". One officer sunn.': es that the Yongala intended to nuke the passage beJ tneaii Ho'.born Island and the outlying ' Nsires Rocks when the stonn broke, and edged away to make the outside passage. The captain did not edge sufficiently, ;,or.left the manoeuvre toolate and was driven on rocks.

There would be no hope of saving, life under such conditions. Cyclonic storms of such violence would smash the boats to pieces before they reached the water. The Yongala would sink quickly in deep water.

FURTHER WRECKAGE,

(Received This i.li o'clock!)

ERISBANE, March 28,

Further wreckage has been . washed ashor'.*, including the Yongala's deck fittings, and a bag and mails.