WORK OF ASHIP.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11887, 10 May 1899, Page 5

WORK OF ASHIP.

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ADELAIDE, May 9.

A boy named May lias arrived at Cape Borda from the Rocky River. He states that the ship Loch Sloy was wrecked on the -south -coast, near Brother Island, on the morning of April 24. One of the crew, : who arrived at the island, states that all on board were lost-except one passenger and three members of the crew. The. crew and passengers numbered thirty-four all told. Assistance is being sent.

May reached the Cape Borda Lighthouse in.an exhausted condition. Details, of the disaster are meagre. The scene of the wredhis at the -entranee- to the Gulf of St. Vincent. The Loch Sloy was bound from Ghcsgcwrto Melbourne with a general cargo. May y ismot -a .member-of the Loch Sloy’s > crew,- but was. sent by Ms father to report [ the wreck. One of the survivors managed toxeadh.May’s house in an exhausted condition. Itinfearcd that thoothers will not . survive--their wanderings in a wild; country., A tug has-sailed in -search. The Australian passeaigers-bythe vessel-.are Robert Logan, Leicester--and wife, Mrs Cartlidgo and George .Lamb, artd for .Dunedin David Kilpatrick. The-vessel was commanded, by , CaptainJSicrol.