TYPHOON TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17880, 28 September 1923, Page 8

TYPHOON TRAGEDY.

LOSS OP THE LOO^agdf

PATHETIC INCIDBHTB. v > ■ —■ K ' : fi •- (sfECUIi to "IBS f or, Loong bang, is "t P f &P te ** vessels which >sh officers and the wife Chinese crew, were cers on board the ill-fafced TMjfTTW Masto, Captain P. Mr' D. R. WiLonHSiSSi SS R. D. Siaulay-Smith; Malcolm Black; engineer, Mr McGowan. giueer was not on board. anu chief officer weie ot the seven officers Mr Barron's wife last husband. Mr in-law of Major H. J. OoTonport, Auckland. r ' The Loong Sang firrrnffnrffiii stone's throw of tbe dred yards eastward of tfe (mIsSI she usually moored wbea ia jSImhI a dozen of the crew Wttta'agSmSi within sight ; people, impotent to gW?||SSS| hand. The vessel was the shore coming up poaite the naval vari fiafelg&M tion of the Kowlooa ly »be had been holed Vwaßw she was travelling at a the storm behind her were entirely er's stern was sticking and abont fif teerr of - be seen hanging was lasted with broke repeatedly oter men been able afcjSSsPjaMIMIM; they would doubtedly occurred'l6 UtiOw in tbe teeth of blowing coarse Swiftly the vessel ™« followed anxiously by shore. The naval yard and the authorities bat the latter craft her course away from. and could do nothia£- f-j IaBHHi this tine the The wind veered, stern went high ua m£dj|jjH|HnHg the saaY 13e«hHH| the mast protrudiiqf etern jumped into thjffiSiMHHi to waters. They and drowned in lookers on fihote," was seen to though the n^n^^^^BMMgg eeen that that by wlth ß^ ..;mh . chip's crew Ma the news t\ro Chinese tad lifeboats whidf At the same time gven next^morning in the bay, all the andfitted with worst of the storm lkion with the weather arttsti<*nji sel as she sank, and an surface wafi able which had floated to clamber^on Mr Barron and his* lifebelts. jump«i before the vessel «u)U. thrown over a 6wimmcrs they wete^WJPHBSH the plank. Mr Staahy^HHi sisting Captain Jo large box which wwiiiiaM people. While th<9 tho master was eaw not mow of tw