STORM SYDNEY HARBOUR.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11006, 2 July 1901, Page 5

STORM SYDNEY HARBOUR.

AN 'J_Ui_aiNO EXP_aVI_3fCE. TJnited Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July Ist, 9.44 ajo.) SYDNEY, July 1. A he-wry* southerly gale ia raging. The ' with thirty passengers, left M: - -r.iy last nicrlit for Jiydney, and iroko down b'-jtween the Heads! She drifted within 100 yards of her destination before the was ) pick-id up. T{k t;«s:! was towed to an an-. _iri__, ar.d drifted ashore ne*ir Manly. Tlrs v.'ere rescued !at three o'clock this morning after some j difficulty, aa the wildest sea ever seen in ; Sydney Harbour was raging. . i | TWO TUGS WRECKED. ! LOSS OF FIVE LIVES. J Bailina reports th.it the tug Protector capsized while crossing the bar. The crew of five were drowned and the tng broken up. ANOTHER TUG ASHORE. Shell Harbour reports the tug Alexander Berry ashore, at Long Point; one man got ashore. It is impossible to reach the others, ns a big sea is running. [Bailina is a small town on the sea coast, about fifty mile 3 south of the Queensland border. Shell Harbour is situated -bout 100 miles south of Sydney.] (Received July Ist, 10.54 p.m.) The Protectoryf crew consisted of J. Lewi**, captain; B. Walton, engineer* Vicke_y, _r_~.an. - Tobranson and Phillips, ; deck hands.

1 (Received July 2nd, 1.13 a.m.) ', The Mwnly was floated off with slight ' damage.

The Aletxander Berry was insured for £500 in the South British. Four of the crew were drowned and one eared.

The Protector had a passenger, naone unknown, drowned. All the crew were married. Tina affair was very sudden, ■ A huge aea struck the boat broadside, and turned her comipktdy over. For a, while she floated bottom up, asd then disappeared. The tremendous sea co the coast is blocking shipping.