A STEAMER WRECKED.
SIX PEOPLE DROWNED. SEVEN ADBIFT FOR TWO DAYS RESCUED BY A LIFEBOAT. ; By Press.Assbciation.-Oppyrisht. ; Washinciton; October 23. Reports which were at first denied, but which have now been proved to • be. coirrect, state that the steamer • Nicara,gua has been;-wrecked' in a ■ storm south of Corpus Ohristij in the Gulf of- Mexico. Six , people were .drowned, 'and: seven : who -were cast adrift were rescued by ; a lifeboat; in a.state of exhaustion, : after being without food for two days.', , t . - i . The Nicaragua was a steel screw steamer , lof Wiltons : register. She was built ;in ; j 1891, at Bergen. . : . - - ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15133, 25 October 1912, Page 7
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100A STEAMER WRECKED. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15133, 25 October 1912, Page 7
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