EMIGRANTS PANICKED
ON STRANDED STEAMER VESSEL MAKES NOTABLE VOYAGE WHILE CRIPPLED. By To'.esraph—Prpss Association—Copyright. (Received May 31, 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. The Russian East Asiatic Steamship Company's steamer Lituania, .1243 ton:;, while on the vovage from Libau to Now York, ran on the rocks off the Orkney Islands during a dense fog. The "shin's bows were badly smashed, and her passengers—l2i.'o emigrants—became panic-stricken, .many sinking to their kuecs in prayer. After some hours the Lituania was refloated, and her watertight compartments kent tho water from the main hold until tho chip reached the Tyne, after a voyage of about 275 miles in her crippled condition.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7141, 31 May 1910, Page 6
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