COLLISION IN FOG

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 94, 15 January 1926, Page 9

COLLISION IN FOG

VESSELS DAMAGED IN COLUMBIA RIVER MANY SHIPS DELAYED ON AMERICAN COAST By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. (Rec. January 14, 7.20 p_,m.) New York, January 13. The cargo steamer Welsh City, bound for Australia, has been dry-docked at Astoria, Oregon, for survey. She collided in the Columbia River during a fog with the motor-ship Carriso, which is now dry-docked at Portland. The ships were severely, shaken, plates being dented bv a glancing blow. They had a miraculous escape. The impact was such that every lifeboat was temporarily lowered. The Welsh City is under charter to Mr. T. J. Moore, of San Francisco. Scores of vessels are foghpund on the entire Canadian-American-Pacific coastline, but the Aorangi, bpund for Australia, left Vancouver at noon, at a snail’s pace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DESTROYER AND SCHOONER COLLIDE OFFICER LOST OVERBOARD. (Rec. January 14, 7.20 p.m.) Paris, January 14. A Brest telegram says the Wolfhound and the rest of a flotilla of torpedo boats and submarines were steaming towards the Spanish coast during a stormy night, when the look-out sighted a schooner, collision with which was inevitable. The destroyer, after freeing herself, saved the crew of the schooner with difficulty, but Lieutenant Langstaff, the second officer, who was in charge of the rescue work, was swept overboard by a heavy wave. Searchlights were turned on the spot where he disappeared, but no trace could be found of him. The Wolfhound will sail at daybreak to join the flotilla.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.