STRUCK A SNAG.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 May 1925, Page 9

STRUCK A SNAG.

STEAMER OVER TUB NS. MANY LIVES LOST. TRAGEDY ON THE MISSISSIPPI. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received May 11, 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, May 10. -Details of the loss of the Norman show that the Society of Civil Engineers of the Southern States had completed its convention at Lake View, Mississippi, and had embarked on a pleasure jaunt aboard two old-time Mississippi steamers specially refitted for the occasion. They stopped for supper in a cotton fie'd, and had just re-embarked, and had swung into the stream, when the Norman struck a snag and overturned immediately. Fifty passengers and the crew were precipitated into the water. Those /lead include John Coleman, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Walter Bernard, editor of the Engineering News. —Sydney Sun Cable. Two bodies of the twenty-two. who were drowned when the river steamer Norman capsized in one of the swiftest stretches of the lower Mississippi, were recovered on Saturday. Five of the crew were drowned. The others were members of the engineers’ convention at Memphis. Divers will attempt to release the bodies, which are thought to be imprisoned in the submerged vessel. —Renter.