SHIPPING DISASTER.
COLLISION ON THE CALIFORNIAN COAST. A STEAMER SINKS. ' TERRIBLE SCENES. TWENTY-SEVEN LIVES LOST. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. (Received January 5, 5.7 p.m.) San Francisco, January 4. The steamer Walla Walla, bound from San Francisco to Puget Sound .with 36 first-class and 28 secondclass passengers and a crew of 60, collided at night off Mendocino, on the Californian coast, with an unknown French barque, which rendered no assistance. The weather was hazy and the sea rough. Lifeboats and rafts were lowered and lifebelts distributed. The boats accommodated 63. There was a terrible scene amongst those left aboard. Women screamed and men and boys leapt into the sea. The Walla Walla sank in 35 minutes after the collision. The officers and crew were cool and courageous. The steamer Despatch rescued the occupants of the drifting boats and rafts. " Twenty-seven of the passengers and crew were drowned.
The Walla Walla was an iron screw steamer of tho following dimensions: Length, 310 ft; breadth, 40.2 ft; depth, 22ft; tonnage, 3070. She was built at Chester, Pa., U.S.A., in 1881, and was owned by the Oregon Improvement Company, of Portland, Oregon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11855, 6 January 1902, Page 5
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