WRECK OF THE GNEISENAU.
[Per San Francisco Mail at Auckland.]' MADRID, December 16. The German training frigate Gneiaenau ! foundered at the entrance to the port of; Malaga, where she was about to take refuge ' from a terrible Btorm that was prevailing. , She beosme a total loss. It is thought that i chere were no leas than 100 men aboard, j Some despatches aay 140. Forty of those j who were saved are badly hurt. The-crew i threw themselves into the sea and oraug j to the wreckage, but the majority quickly ■ liaappeared. Captain Cressman died at his post. The Malaga lifeboat made three sfforte and rescued fifteen, but their weight, capsized the boat, and twelve were drowned. • The other three were saved by means of l ropes thrown to them. The pore authorities i saved many of the sailors. The survivors > havo been reoeived at the hospital, the Hotel de Ville, and private houses.
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Evening Star, Issue 11454, 23 January 1901, Page 4
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