SYDNEY COLLISION.
LOSS OF LIFE NARROWLY AVERTED.
STEAMER TOWED OFF.
Rj telegraph, Presa A'a*’n, Copyright •w_. Sydney, May 5. It was clear moonlight at the time of ibe collision. The preponderating testimony is that nothing approaohiog a pan’c ocourrod, though a lady passenger aconses some male passengers of behaving like madmen in their efforts to reaeh the boats.
The effect of the steamer striking the towing hawser was to bring the ba'que down on her at a great peas. The passengers were thrown down by the shock of the impact. It is marvellous how all escaped tho falliog fannel and accompanying wreoknge.
The fires were extinguished by a
imendous inrush of water into the on- *' -foom The stiff had barely time to their escape to the deok. from H.M.S Powerful and the naval depot at Garden Islanl were on the '•one in a few minutes, and rescued the '% mgars. . A Ading the vessel was siDkiog the tug, depositing the Criffel in a safe piooe, the steamer across to shallow .rater. ,
Reoeivod 10.55 p.m,, May 5. Sydney, May 5. The steamer Buoiogyoog has been lowed off, and taken t, the wnarf.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1742, 7 May 1906, Page 3
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