DISASTER TO STEAMER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1907, Page 5

DISASTER TO STEAMER.

THE SANTIAGO WRECKED. NITCETY LIVES LOST. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.l (Received 8.39 a_m.)' '! }"S:., VALPARAISO, June 25. There is reason to believe that a terrible disaster has befaUen the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Santiago (2953 tons), with a loss of life that appears to total no less than ninety of the vessel's passengers and crew. The details- to hand show that the Santiago quitted the port of Corral, on the coast of Chile, with her engines partly disabled. While in this condition she ran northwards into a fierce storm, and waa wrecked in a heavy squall fifty miles beyond the Corral. One passenger and one officer have been saved, but it is feared that -three passengers and eighty-seven of the crew have perished. [The Santiago was built in 18S9 by the Xaval Construction and Armaments Company of Barrow-in-Furness for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company of Liverpool. Her age and small tonnage ( 2953) do not aUow of her comparison with the P.S.N. Co.'s later vessels, such as the Orita (10,000) and the Oreana, Ortega, and Oronsa (each of 8000 tons), and presumably she Is now engaged in coastal work-]