DISASTER OVERTAKES AUSTRIAN PASSENGER STEAMER.
SUNK BY AUSTRIAN MINE WITHIN 100 MILKSOP TRIESTE
LIST OF DROWNED INCLUDES 143 PERSONS. (Received August 16. 5.5 p.m.)
Trieste, August 15. While steaming from Lussingrande, less than 100 miles south of
Trieste, the Austrian Lloyd steamer Baron Gautsch, a vessel of 2069 tons, struck a mine and sank.
Three hundred persons were on the steamer, and of them 14,'J persons wore drowned, tho remaining 157 being saved. Twenty bodies have already been recovered.
It is believed that the disaster was caused by a mine laid in the Adriatic Sea by an Austrian warship.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15689, 17 August 1914, Page 5
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99DISASTER OVERTAKES AUSTRIAN PASSENGER STEAMER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15689, 17 August 1914, Page 5
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