A CRUISER ASHORE.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13661, 1 September 1916, Page 3

A CRUISER ASHORE.

TWENTY LIVES LOST, (Per Cable—l'ro&s Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.H. Cal'U Association,) NEW YORK, August 30. The cruiser Memphis lias been driven ashore by a storm. A gunboat went to her,rescue, but twenty lives were lost during the' Venioviil of the crew. Inrushing waler extinguished the cruiser's fires, ami the commander reports that ?!ic will be a total loss. Received August ill, at 10.35 p.m. NEW YORK, August 31. Details of the Joss oi 1 the Memphis show that the vessel was struck by a wave twenty feet high and she was hurled on the rocks, Although it is believed that the vessel is a total loss, the Navy Department will attempt to salvage her, The casualties total one hundred.