RIVER STEAMER DISASTER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19916, 1 May 1930, Page 11

RIVER STEAMER DISASTER.

TWENTY-FOUR SURVIVORS, VESSEL CAP3I3ED IN CYCLONE. fUJJMBD MUSS BIJ.CHUO (Received April ?oth, §.55 p.m.) CALCUTTA, April 30. Only 24 of 250 passengers and crew of the Bengal river streamer are definitely known to have been saved, and the death roll is not likely to. be less than 200. The steamer, which wag anchored half a mile from the banks, turned turtle in five minutes after the. cyclone burst, carrying the majority of the passengers and crew with her. Only a few of the panic-stricken company donned lifebelts. Five men were saved by clinging to the floating gangway, while eight others took refuge on the stealer's hull, eighteen inches of wbieh remained nboye water, The eyelone lasted four and a half hours, causing widespread destruction. Many villages were wrecked, rendering hundreds, of people homeless. [lt was reported yesterday that the river steamer Condor capslsed in the river Jumna while proceeding to Oonlnnda from Juggerunthgunge with mails and about three hundred passengers,} COLLISION IN SYDNEY HARBOUR. TWO FURRY STEAMERS DAMAGED. KYDNIY, April 30. Heavy leg blanketed the harbour from an early hour well into the for* noon, causing much inconvenience to the ferry traffic, The Manly ferry Gurt-Gurl, and the Sydney Ferries beat Riandra collided. »oth were mMerably damaged, but nobody was hurt, (Seoeived April SOtfc, fi.55 BYSHBY, April 80, The ferry steamer- puri-Ourl atrue* the giandyn nearly amidships when halfway between the and Fmrt Mfteanurie. B «t fe *«** fc»wW»l slowly, The Curl-Curl was wtwva beund, and the wmlng o from afosman, but the big steel Manly boat crashed through thp aide of |b« smaller wooden ship, and had her own stem slightly bent, while pieces, of timber fw?n the Kiandr* were embedded is a hole in the bow plating. fortunately there .t^wjwt erfl aboard either vessel. *»»»*' of those on the Ki&adra feramhled up a ladder to the Cnrl-Curl's deck, while the ships were locked momentarily together. When they pot free, the* Kiandra limped to tbe wharf, and dieembarked the halance of »• PMMMW she was then leaking b *dly, towed »wj»y far repine. The CuriOuri was slse. withdraws temj»*w>ly for the same purposes,