TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10032, 10 May 1898, Page 5

TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR.

ABSENCE OF PANIC ON THE

WRECK.

Two more bodies have been recovered and the remains of others fearfully mutilated by sharks have been washed up* It is now stated that twenty-eight persons have not been accounted for, including several who were unknown, among the steerage passengers. The corrected list of the drowned does not include the names of Carley, Owens, Peters, and Richardson, but they are supposed to be amongst those missing. Two Chilians named Albert Conpourer and Manuel Olebas, were amongst the drowned.

To the list of the crew drnwned, G. Bazinett and two other seamen whose names are unknown, have been added.

The after part of the Maitland is high and dry at low water and the beach is strewn with wreckage for miles.

The third officer, interviewed, says that the people behaved as quietly as though they were safe on land. The ladies in the forward part of the ship never had a chance to save themselves, but those left on the ship after she broke in two were cool and collected,and there was not the slightest panic. Everyone expected that the ship would go to pieces in a minute, but he never expected to see the people so cool. He never even heard a shriek.