STRUCK A REEF
CRUISING STEAMER WITH 11U0 PASSENGERS. REFUGE ON BLEAK ISLAND. ISLAND. ONLY CAPTAIN LOSES LIFE. United Preßß Assn .by El. Tel. Copyright (Received Jan. 26, 5 p.m.) BUENOS AYRES, Jun. 21, The German steamer Monte Cerevante.s struck a reef in Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, on Wornosduy. The- 1500 passengers and crew wore safely transferred to. shore, but Captain Dreyer returned to t}m ship and was drowned next day when a. storm , arose i. ami tho steamer broke in halves and slipped into deep water under “the buffeting of the thundering seas. The passengers numbered 1100. including fifty South American millionaires. and some concern is leifc regarding their plight as the Island Ushimn, on which they am taking refuge, is a penal settlement sejiaraled from the mainland by Bougie Channel. • It is a bleak, forbiddipg .spot, and the only buildings, besides the , prison quarters, are the disused mission station and a few stores and residences, .altogether- inadequate for such n large influx of lodgers. ' * . The steamer Monte Sarinicnto, a sister ship to the sunken craft, has been ordered south, from Monte Video to pick up the stranded tourists. - ■ ' j
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11115, 27 January 1930, Page 5
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