WRECK OF A STEAMER
«. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
(15Y ELECTRIC telegraph copyright). London, October 15. Owing to the breakdown of her machinery, the liner Mohegan (Mohican ?), bound from New York, was driven on to the Manacle Rocks, south from Falmouth, to-day. A heavy gale was blowing at the time, and the vessel sank within 20 minutes. Eighty-six of the crew and passengers were drowned. Thirty-one passengers and 16 of the crew were saved. October 16. The Mohegan's crew acted nobly. Captain Griffiths, who was Commodore of the Atlantic Transport Co., perished at his post. The night was pitch dark. Most of the Kfeboats rendered useful service. The terrible cries of the drowning people were heard ashore.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 355, 18 October 1898, Page 3
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