WRECK OF A GERMAN STEAMER.

Feilding Star, Volume XXV, Issue 221, 7 March 1904, Page 2

WRECK OF A GERMAN STEAMER.

Telegraph Press Association. Copyright Sydney, March 6... The crew of the Elbe recently wrecked on Ocean Island, report that that the vessel is a total wreck. Received March 7, 11.80 a.m. Sydney, This Day. The captain of the Elbe states the steamer was driven ashore in a sudden storm on Ocean Island on January 3rd while loading phosphates. The captain was ashore at the time and the crew escaped safely. She remained hard and fast till the 15th when the tide lifted her clear of the reef, and she got into deep water but leaking so badly she had to be run ashore again to prevent her sinking. When the crew left she was hanging on the reef almost perpendicularly, a total wreck. She was sold to the Paoifio Islands Coy. for £70. The crew came to Sydney in the steamer Windsor which called at the Islands on the 20th. ; It is reported that daring attempts were made to claim the Elbe after the crew had temporarily left her and force had to be employed to drive off the intruders. The captain will probably report to the German Consul on the matter.