HURRIED TO DEATH.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 38, 21 March 1914, Page 7

HURRIED TO DEATH.

'DISASTROUS LAUNCH AND DESTROYER. WOMEN AND CHILDREN PERIB3^|| TRAGEDY ON THE GRAND CANAI»SS By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright*.";^ ROME, March 20£ A destroyer, travelling at a high rate*J| 'of speed, collided with a launch an Grand Canal, Venice. Fifty of th«N| launch's passengers were .'drowne&«| chiefly women and children returning*! from a service at St. Mark's. -Jk - ■ THE DEATH BOLL. . -yljf (Received March 21, 11 a.i».) .. ROME, March 20!. ,Jl| The drowned include the The captain, of the launch. -'vlm a Two English tourists. • Jj| Four sailors from the Kaiser 's yaehtj Hohenzollern. x . 'J|| Three Italian officers. , - ' SANK'IN A MOMENT. - A CITY IN MOURNING. V|j (Received March 21, 12.15 p.m.) v The steamer carried 80 mostly women and children. ; jiM The torpedo destroyer was "• .at full ijg speed, and the steamer ia' a '3m minute. ; The majority of the passengers sheltering in the saloon owing' JM 'cold... _ r . . ' " "-2^B Few of them had time to escape. . Italian and German bluejackets! saved many lives. . v V Lieutenant Bossi ' was saving. woman, one of the many victims," she clung round his neck, with suit that he was drowned. The city is in mournirig. ■ ::fli All the theatres and have been closed. , ' ■< [The Grand Canal, which winds two miles in 7 the,shape of an invert through the city that possesses' horses, was probably at one bed of a river. It is spanned by famous Rialto Bridge and two iron. The characteristic conveyances,-"IIm which take the place of cabs in places, are the dondolas, but jfedrs omnibus steamers have been duced. The Grand Canal is of bo depth—the entrance to the port;/ -Venice only provides for 26ft at water—and would seem to be an likely place for'destroyers to matna^vrev in, though one of Bmall possibly make its way up the Canal Afcfegl high tide; . Possibly when to hand it may be found that -the dent occurred in the more open waters -*|| of the Canal delta in GiudecciK, i©r x .the : ?|| Canal de S. Marco to .the east of, city, and that-the steamer was ing passengers from St. Mark?8 y to the 31 Lido, the fashionable suburb and -water-Cfil inop Tilaop 1 l .**' "" "--IS