STEAMER ASHORE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 May 1913, Page 5

STEAMER ASHORE.

TYSER, LINIR INDRABARAH.

STHANOEO OH THE BEACH.

HOPES OF RE-FLOATINC HER.

A STEVEDORE'S STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

By Telegraph.—Frets Association.) WANGANUI, Last Night. During ft semu westerly gale on Friday night, the Tyser Company' f steamer Indrabarah was stranded on the beach, seven miles north of the Raitrgibiket rive*, and about twentyfive miles from Wanganui. The vessel is now lying stern-or> to tho sea, and the officers are reported to ihohl out every prospect of refloating hen'. WHERE THE VESSEL IS . STRANBED. The Indrabarah was bound uoiii Gisborne for Wanganui, to load frozen msat. She was due about 9 p.m. on Friday, and is reported to have arrived off the roadstead, but weather bsing very dirty she was put to sea again, and at 4 o'clock n2xt morning took the beach. The land in the vicinity is very lowlying, with brosid belts of sandhills, and at, night : is very hard to discern. It is estimated that tha steamer is lying nearly half a mil© from th< shore, on a- sanay bottom. She if said to be lying as though at anchor, with steam up. SIGNALS OF DISTRESS. At 6 o'clock cm Saturday morning a fadrmer observed distress signals, ant! wont to the beach in the direction that he saw the rockets. It wan then still fairly dark, but he could just make out a boat's crow pulling to the share from the helpless liner. The boat had a crew of ten, who landed after a perilous trip over the intervening breakers, which rolled in with great force before a strong westerly. A GALLANT RESCUE. One maia nji/mtxi Anurow lYiouoon, a stevedore, was washed out of the boat, and had it not be?n for the efforts of the soc»nd mate (Adeock) hewould assuredly have been drowned. Monson wa& thrown an oar, which he grasped, and for two hours a battle for life continued, while those on the Indrabarah watched the struggle. It was then, that Adcock parformed a deed of heroism.

Despite thf. bitterness of the gale and tiKe great peril to which he subjected himself, ha stripped, and affixing a lifoliue to his body, he plunged into the raging surf.

After almost superhuman efforts, he gallantly iuscikkl his comrade, who had bj jUris t.me drifted well to the southlQdlv Monsan was »n the Star of Canada at the tipie of her wreck. He says this was the closest call he ever experienced. Adcock was much exhausted, but was able to walk to the nearest farmhouse (Dalrymple s), while Man son had to be taken on horseback, and afterwards taken to for medical treatment. HOSPITALITY OF SETTLERS. The settlers displayed great hospitality. 'Hie unfortunate sailors were supplied with tents and food. They have pitched a camp in sheltered position, and the second officer and crew are standing by, amd will return to the vessel as soon a?.' the sea moderates. Since landing, there has been 110 communication with the vessel. FALSE REPOftTS.

The first reports received in Waga.nui stated that the vessel was being pounded by the heavy s«u> and was breaking up fast. She wa« then lying broadside on, and -bearing tho full of the rolling ocean. This report is altogether wrong, .for the Indrabarah is weathering very well; but there is a danger of her, sinking, into the sand.

.ANOTHER ACCOUNT. VESSEL AND CARGO UNDAMAGED: ATTEMPT TO BE MADE AT TOWING. MARTON, Last Night, A sensation was caused at Bulls yesterday, when th? news was received that the ivser liner Indrabarah had stranded on e coast, about 7 miles north of the Rangitikei river. The vessel remains stranded near the , wreck of the Fusilier. She has a crew of sixty men and officers, aaid is oommanded bj- Captain Hollingsworth. The steamer was proceeding from Gisborne to Wanganui to load frozen meat, and had already half-loaded at Gisborue. She was to complete h?r cargo at Wangamm, Wellington and Lyttelton. Arriving at the Wanganui heads"the Captain, after failing to find an anchorage, decided to stand off. It was a very dirty night, with hail storms, and a tremendous sea- was running, with a decided set to thr--south. The vessel evidently drifted, and grounded at 4-30 a.m., about a quarter of a mile from the shore. She i« broad-side on, on a sandy j botton, with 18 feet of water. The waves are sweeping the decks. To get communication with the agents, a lifeboat was lowered, in command of the second mate, ma mod Adoock. After much difficulty, the men sue-

ceeded in landing about half a mile north of the scene of tha stranding. Just as the life-boat was being landed, a tremendous lurch tore away the oars and precipitated a stevedore named Monaam into the &ea. After landing, as at was impossible to turn the boat back, the second mate stripped, and attach >d himself to a life-lino. Aftor repeated attempts, he pluckily saved Monson, who had been in th.2 water for an hour and a half. Minion ka» n-m i.-wsiy nn- the Star of Canada, which was stranded at Gkborne a>bout a \\ ar ago. The sea has subsided, and the steamer is now head on to th. 1 fcJiore. She is apparently fast-embedded in the sand, and is motionless. She looks as if she was at an anchorage, and appears to be undamaged. Tho crew are awaiting the tugs Teravrhiti, Storm and Kapiti, to make am attempt to tow her off. It is doubtful if tihey will be successful, owing to the low tid:s>. When the sea reaches normal, the steamer will be drawing from 12 to 14 feet of water. It is not at all probable that the steamer will break up. The orew are reticent.^ News from. Bulls to-day states that an examination shows that the cargo in the hold is undamaged, and the engines are sound. • ©urimg to-day she wung clean round with her head to the sea, and then drifted back to her original position, with her head to the shore.

A STORMY EXPERIENCE. tmrn : BAD LUCK FOR TYSER COMPANY.

GISBORNE, Last Night

The wrecked Indrabarah has experienced very stormy weather during her coast. loading. She arrived at Gisborn? last Sunday afternoon during a howling southerly, and was forced, to «li Iter under Young Nick's Head until the following day, when cargo-loading was proceeded with under such difficulties that though th vessel was erp *eted to sail for Wa nganui on Wednesday, she ultimately did not get away until Thursday af ternoon. The Tyser Company Ls having a particularly bad run of luck, as it is barely ten months ago sinc> their illfated Star of Canada was wrecked.

THE KAPIER CABfiO

NAPIER, Last Night

The Indrabarah's cargo from Napier consisted of 43,000 carcases of mutton, 700 casks of tallow, 400 bales of wool, and 205 bales of flax.

TUG TO THE RESCUE

WELLINGTON, Last Night

The Union Company's tug Terawhiti got away from Wellington a 7 o'clock this morning, on her way to the seeno of the wreck of the Indrabarah.

THE STRANDED VESSEL. There are three liius miming undsr the Tyser flag, viz., the Indra Line, Star (or J. P. Corry) Line, and the Tyser Line. The Indrabarah belongs to a big fleet which trades largely in the East. She was on 3 of the finest and newest of the lino, and her carrying capacity was 15,000 tons measurement and ?COO tons gross She had space for 103,300 carcases of mutton, and she was a regular Australia-New Zeaiand.trader... Av a passenger, steamcir the Indrabarah was very comfortably fitted up for n limited number of first-class passengers. Her builders were Swan. Hunter, and Wigbam, Wal lsend-cji-Ty ne, and she was engined by Ricliaxdson, Westgarth, and Co., Hartlepool. When she first came to New Zealand from London sh? fell in with very bad weather but did excsediiigly well, making an average sp:-ed all tlve way; via the Caps to Australia, of 12* knots. On her trial trip from th i Tyne to Graves end she made 14.38 knots.