SEA MINES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 7

SEA MINES

SINKING OP THE RUNO PANIC-STRICKEN PASSENGERS. LONDON, 7th Sept. (Morning). The Wilson lirter Rutio was blown up after she was twelve hours out from Hull, bound to a place unspecified. The explosion occurred under the baggagel'oon*, where several baggage sorters were killed and the baggage blown high into the air. Many of the passengers were panic-stricken, and numbers jumped overboard ; others rushed to the boats, impeding tho work of the erevf. Three boats overturned before they reached the water, and one being overcrowded capsized. The crew were calm, and practically all the women and children were saved. After the disaster the whistle was continuously blown. attracting Grimbsv trawlers, which pushed to the assistance of the Runo. regardless of the mine peril. The Runo's passengers were not refugees. They came from America. [The Runo (1679 tons), with 300 refugees, while going to Hull from Russia, struck a mine forty miles off Shields. Eighty persons were drowned. Trawlers landed 200 survivors at Grinisby.] TRAWLERS' SPLENDID WORK.! (Received September 8, 9 a.m.) LONDON. 7th September. The trawlers did wonderfully effective work in rescuing the survivors of the Runo. Only the captains and engineers remained aboard the trawlers, and the lest manned the boats or leaped over« board. Many men with lifelines picked up the drowning passengers. One of the trawlers saved 128, and became dangerously overloaded. RECENT ATTACK ON TRAWLERS. STOCKHOLM. 7th September. M. Eriksim, a Norwegian engineer aboard v British trawler, was fishing with others north-west of the Dogger Rank on 28th August, when a German warship opened firo, sinking two trawlers, but the crews were rescued. Eleven other trawlers were captured, and conveyed to Hamburg. [|t was stated yesterday that fifteen fishing boats were eunk by two German cruiser* and four destroyers.]