Shipwrecks.
' . ! ' ' San Francisco, Feb. 23. The steamer City Rio tfe’Janiero, from Hongkong and Yokohama struck a ledge at the Entrance of the Golden Gate at San Francisco daring a fog; The steamer foundered in fifteen minutes. One and’fifty people were drowned. Details of the wreck show that Pilot Jordan on entering the Golden' Gate, warned Captain .Ward that it was unsafe to proceed in the fog, but his advice was disregarded. One boat load was swamped | another was Impaled oria spar while it was trying to escape the auction' fnyn the sinking PT*^ ! Captain Ward' locked himself In a 'stateroom and sank witty the ship. >, * r ■ Stdnj^,'February 20. • The Agents of the North German liloyds Company have been advised that the Muocben, ,4500 tons,, one -of the 'company’s two steamers, trading between Sydney and the East, has-been i wrecked at Yap.; Caroline Islands.. The crew and 'passengers weva saved.,
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 113, 26 February 1901, Page 3
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149Shipwrecks. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 113, 26 February 1901, Page 3
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