EXTRA ODINARY SCENE AT A WRECK.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1157, 10 March 1874, Page 4

EXTRA ODINARY SCENE AT A WRECK.

A correspondent, describing the wreck of the steamer Agra, oft" Galle, bound from Calcutta to London, via the Suez Canal, says that after the vessel struck on the rocks the passengers and crew had barely time to escape into the boats, as the sea came tumbling over the sides sweeping everything before them carrying away one poor invalid sailor, and bursting open the cages and dens of an extensive menagerie on board going home for the Zoological Gardens. The escape and striking out amid the waves of a number of tigers, elephants, &c, and their roars and screams adding to the terror of the wretched passengers presented a spectacle that will not soon be forgotten. One elephant managed to swim ashore, as did one of the tigers, greatly to the alarm of the inhabitants of the adjacent coast, who are said to be living in a state of siege, not daring to venture outside their barricaded doors. The Agra, which sank in deep water, belonged to the lied Cross line of steamers, plying between Calcutta and London, and was to have taken a number of passengers home from Ceylon. Her wreck coiuci on the heels of that of the Arracan, lost the other day on one of the Maldive reefs, where no vessel should have been, as she was, at midnight.—Argus.