A LADY PASSENGER'S EXPERIENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 13 November 1902, Page 5

A LADY PASSENGER'S EXPERIENCE.

AUCKLAND, This Day. Miss Greenwood, of Wellington, whose father and mother are unaccounted for, was rescued by the purser's boat. She states that when the boats were launched she jumped from the side of the steamer — about a 12ft fall— and sank, but soon came to the surface, confuseu and struggling, and was pulled on board the purser's boat. Later on she was transferred to another boat containing ladies. All around the sea- was strewn with wreckage and a- quantity of fruit. She saw only one or two bodies. One was that of an old gentleman, who she thinks was in the steerage at the beginning of the voyage, but later transferred to the saloon. He was crushed between some of the boats and the steamer. She got ashore at the landing chosen by Captain Reid. In the uext boat that arrived there the people were up to their waists in water. The cliffs uehind the ledge at Reid's landing-place were fUUft high. Some of the men tried to scale them with the object of lighting fires and attracting attention, but failed. Whenthsy saw the Zealandia they cooeod, whistled, and waved things to draw her attention. Miss Greenwood is sure that some of the party would have been unable to survive another night. It was cold, they had no food, and rain water was beginning to give out.