SHIP BROKEN IN TWO
THRILLING WRECK RESCUES ASTORIA (Oregon), July 13. During the worst storm of tho season the coastal steamer Laurel was driven ashore to-day on Peacock Spit, nt the mouth of the 'Columbia River, and was pounded apart. The captain and crew of thirty-two clung to the wreckage for some time, as, although lifeboats approached the vessel, rescue work was very difficult, as her cargo of lumber was drifting about. Meanwhile the Laurel broke in two, and half of the hulk drifted away, leaving the forepart of the ship on tho rocks. Eight men who were rescued up to that time had to jump into a boiling sea and be picked np by tho men iii the lifeboats. Eventually twenty-four of the men were rescued. One man is known to have been drowned, and the other eight 4i re listed as missing. There is still hope, however, that they may be found on the part of the ship that got adrift and which finally grounded on a sand bar half a mile from the mouth of the river.
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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