TELEGRAMS

Grey River Argus, 22 January 1912, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK. ♦

STEAMER FOUNDERS JN VIOLENT GALE.

(Per Pness Association.)

LONDON, Jan. 19. Wild weather continues. Snow, falling in many districts for thirty hours, was the heaviest for forty years. ■ ,' ■An Aberdeen steamer, with fourteen hands, foundered at Porterrol. The Western Hall left Jarrow on Mon T day, but heavy seas destroyed her funnel, broke her boats and extinguished the i : res in the engine room. She drifted helplessly and the crew were without food arid "bunkless for three days, being -unable to reach the forecastle. They huddled together in the engine room. Then the steamer 'struck at Porter rol. A lifeboat made a gallant effort to .rescue tba crew, who were clinging to ropes, ventilators and derricks, but the breakers rendered a rescue impossible. ■/ The. fishermen evaded in tba boiling surf neck deep and dragged ashore Captain Stoddart and three Lascars. Stoddart was revived after an hour's artificial respiration. He stated: that- he was confined to. th' 3 cabin with a broken "arm and internal injuries at the time of the foundering. He remembered nothing of the .events until he found himself ashore. " •' i — — — i — — — — — .