WRECK OF A STEAMER.
STRUCK A SUNKEN ROCK.
ALL HANDS SAVED.
Received April 2, 10 a.vi.
■' ••' Perth, Aprils.; The schooner Alto lias arrived at Broome with 121 shipwrecked people aboard—the passengers and crew of the steamer Karrakatta, bound from Fremantle to Singapore. . ~
The steamer struck an unknown rock off Cape jSwan on the night (&M arch. -26tfe7-aMd~c6Eiiirenced to sink. -
Owing to the coolness of the officers, all hands .were safely transferred to boats, which hung by the sinking steamer till daylight, and were then landed on Sunday Island. •
The vessel is a total wreck.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 2 April 1901, Page 2
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94WRECK OF A STEAMER. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 2 April 1901, Page 2
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