A PASSENGER'S STORY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 25 June 1912, Page 5

A PASSENGER'S STORY.

Further accounts gathered from a man who was aboard the ship last night go to show that her experience must have been an unenviable one. He states that he was lying in his bunk reading, when he noticed an unusual rolling! Presently he felt the vessel touch the bottom, and he made for the deck post haste The ship was rolling terribly and it was almost impossible to stand on one's feet. With each roll from side to side the vessel bumped, aud the impact caused the great hull to quiver like a-leaf. The rigging napped together, and tne masts looked as if they would be shaken out of her. He added that the thumping on the rock bottom caused serious damage in the en-gine-room, and the stokehold bulged and it was only a matter of bulging a ittle more, an£ the dynamo wouM have been put out of action. The main shafts also showed signs of the unusual strain that uas being placed upon them by the bending of the vessel's bottom.