THE WRECK OF THE TEUTON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6114, 14 September 1881, Page 2

THE WRECK OF THE TEUTON.

The following fuller particulars regarding the above disaster are from special cablegrams in the Melbourne Argus :—

London, September l>t.

The Uuion Steam Navigation Company's steamer Teuton, bound from Capetown t> Algoa Bay, struck on the rockg at Gunners Qaoin Point, abont 30 miles west of Cape Agulhas. She waa backed cff the rocks, bui sauk in deep water. Three boats, containing in all 27 persons, pot off from the ship, and one of them has arrived at Simon's Town, about 25 miles sonth of Capetown. _ The rc'Bt of the passengers and crew, making il all 200, were drowned. H.M. corvette Dido hna proceeded to the scene. of the disaster. E'ghtyf our persons who were passengers by thi Teuton from England bad landed at Capetown previously to tae vessel continuing her voyage to Algoa Bay. Another of the three boats which put off from the e.s. Teuton, just before she sank off Gunners Quoin Point, haß succeeded in reaching port. It arrived at Capetown to-day with nine of the crew, but none of tho passen gers. September 3rd. The missing passengers who escaped in the third boat from the wreck of the Teuton have arrived at Capetown. Tho latest news regarding the wreck of the steamer ia that the bulkhead compartments gave way on her being backed off the rocks. This opened a passage for the water into the engine-room, which waa immediately flooded. The steamer then went down head foremost into deep waterSeptember 6 th. H.M. stoam corvette Dido, which was de apatched to cruise off the scene of the wreck of the Union Steam Navigation Company's s.s Teuton at Gunners Qaoin Point, has returned to Capetown, and reports that her search after aay additional survivors was fruitless.