STATEMENTS BY THE CLANSMAN'S PASSENGERS

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 118, 14 November 1902, Page 6

STATEMENTS BY THE CLANSMAN'S PASSENGERS

INCIDENTS OF THE DISASTER. AUCKLAND, This Day. The chief officer of the Elingamite, who arrived by the Clansman, says that good sights were got the day before the, wreck, but afc the time of the casualty the fog was as thick as pitch. Amongst those waiting on the wharf this morning when the Clansman arrived was Mrs. Neil, wifo of one of the missing men, under engagement to the Tramway Company. Her distress <was intense when she heard that her husband was still missing. He pufc his wife and child on a boat, and was then washed away. Miss Hugo, one of the saved passengers, was met at the wharf by her future husband. She lost her mother in the wreck. Both were on the steamer's deck together. Miss Hugo was hurled into a ■boat first, and an attempt was then made to get 'her mother in, but itVwas unsuccessful owing to the swell. She was then drawn back to await a further attempt, and the boat drifted away. That was the last Miss Hugo saw of her mother. One passenger states that he saw the forecabin stewardess handing lifebelts to the steerage- passengers. She served them all, but had not one for herself. She spoke cheering words" of .encouragement to the women, and then moved to another group. The last seen, of her wa» on the raft*