Disasters at Sea.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 142, 27 April 1901, Page 4

Disasters at Sea.

London, April 24. Tjbe Turkish transport Aruslan has been wrecked in the Red Sea. Two jthousand five hundred troops and a hundred pilgrims were aboard. The captain and crew seized the boats and deserted the ship Two hundred soldiers were drowned, and thereat were rescued after being in a perilous position for forty-eight hours. Eto.vjbY, April 24. Calcutta files received to-day contain an account of the wreck of the steamer Taber, formeily the P. aod 0. Com* pany's Ancona, at Mauritius, on March 21st. It is stated that twenty lives were lost. Melbourne, April 24. In connection with the loss of the I Federal, the lighthouse-keeper at Qabo Island states that on the afternoon she was supposed to b > lost she came so close to the lighthouse that he couli- have thrown a stone into the steamer. The lighthouse-keeper at Everard and a man camped near Kamhead tell similar •Tories. A theory ie mooted that the captain- kept close in shore to avoid the big waves and struck a sunken rock, and that the crew got into boats, which were ■*w«mped after they were launched.

There is a general interruption of the telegraph hoes, owing to the gale. The vessel ashore at Cape Patterson if the barque Artisan, bound from Manila to Newcastle in ballast. She struck 'uring a gale at three o'clock on Monday morning. All h ndg reached shore safihv and are wait rig till the flood subsides in the Powlett river in order to roach .San' Remr>. With a heavy Fea running, the barque is doomed. Ghv Artgean is owned by the Tomas Com* pany, of Bt. Johns, New Brunswick. The George T. Hay is anchored behind Cape Woolamie, and is unable to get out without assistance She ifa in danger of dragging her anchors. Captain Purdy, of the Artisan, states that ihey were sixty mil's beyond Cape Patterson, but were driven b«ck by a gale. The pails were all carried away, and the weather was the worst he had ever experienced. They were driven about at the mercy of the elements for many hours, big seas continuously breaking on board. At three o'clock on Tuesday morning she struck the rocks and was held hard and fasts Waves continued breaking over. It was pitch dark and the crew passed an anxious time. At dawn they found they- were 100 yards Irom the Bhore. At low water all on board, including the captain's wife, managed to scramble ashore .=afely. Tho latest news is that the George. T. , Hay is dragging her anchors, i April 25. The Artisan was roughfy valued at £IO,OOO. The crew were housd by residents in the vicinity of the wreck, and in tents. With the exception of a number of Filipino*, who were paralysed with fear, tho orew and the. captain's wife behaved splendidly throughout i their terrible adventure. There is no further news oft the Georee T. Hay. Though the gale has moderated somewhat, the sea is too rough for tugs to render assistance. A rocket corps is in readiness to render assistance if required. The barquentine Mary Wadhy and the ke'ch Priscilla were driven ashore during the gale. The Mary Wadley will probably become a total wreck. The weather is moderating, and the floods and sea are subsiding. Tho George T. Hay is how pr actically safe-. Hobabt, April 24.

Tempestuous weather and heavy ram »re being experienced throughout Tasmania. The steamer Melbourne has arrived from Newcastle. She reports meeting a hurricane all down the coast, and every, thing movable was.swept away.