BATTLE FOR LIFE
ON SINKING VESSEL.
AN OFFICER’S HEROISM."
SAVES OYER FTF'TY PEOPLE.
BY CAB-LE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.
- Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. MANILA, June 1. The inter-island steamer, Negros, foundered 150 miles south of Manila in a typhoon on May 28. The victims included the captain, six of the crew, the chief engineer and one hundred passengers (negroes). She was a. 280-ton craft and left the | island Roniblon on May 26 with 150 passengers and a large quantity ,of cargo. All hands battled with the typhoon and terrific seas for two days. To the extraordinary heroism of one officer during the first day of the storm is credited the saving of the lives of 50 passengers and some of the crew. •He succeeded in loading these aboard the lifeboad, after which they spent twenty hours without food or drink, terribly buffeted in the. wild sea and succeeded in landing at Tayadas province on May 29^ Two other steamers are overdue.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 June 1927, Page 5
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