SEA DISASTER.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19357, 9 July 1928, Page 9

SEA DISASTER.

BIG VESSEL SINKS. NEARLY ALL ABOARD LOST. (UNITED PEES 3 ASSOCIATION —BY ILECTBIC TELEGRATE —COPYRIGHT.) (Received July Bth, 11.5 p.®-) SANTIAGO (Chile), July Two hundred and ninety-one lives were lost through the sinking of the Angamos. Eighty of the victims were passengers. The captain committed suicide on the bridge. Another message states thflt the cruiser Zenteno and destroyer Williams found no wreckage at the scene of the disaster, whirh is south ot Lebu, on the southern coast of tho Republic. Details are scare. o The ship Taiapaca on Friday night intercepted weak signals from the transport, stating that s!>c was m a difficult position, but not explaining the cause. The radioman on the Taiapaca believed that the weakness of the signals indicated that a storm, which had been raging for two days, had dismantled tho main wireless set. Captain Carbeta Suarez is said to have committed suicide when he realised that he was unable to save the ship. Many women and children are anrng the 80 passengers. The crew numbered 215.

ONLY FIVE MEN SAVED. (Received July Bth, 5.5 p.m.) SANTIAGO, July 7. The Chile Army transport Angamos sank on Saturday in Arauco Bay, only five of the crew being saved, according to first reports received. —Australian Press Association.