A FATAL COLLISION.
-■ ' » TWENTV-SEYEX PERSON'S DItOWNICD. INSUFFICIENT BOATS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SAN Jj'HANCISCO, January 4. (Received Jan. o, at 5.7 p.m.) The steamer Walk Walk, bound from San Francisco to Ptiget Sound, with 36 first class and 28 second class passengers and U0 of a crew, collided at night off Mendocino, on the Cnliforuinn coast, wixn an unknown French barque, which rendered no assistance. The weather was hazy and there was a roiis;h sea. lut'eboats and rafts wore lowered and lifebelts distributed. The boats accommodated fti. There was a terrible scene amongst those left aboard. Women screamed and men and boys leaped into Lie sea. The Walla Walla sank in 35 minutes after the collision. The officers and crew were cool and courageous. The steamer Despatch rescued the ocupants of the drifting boats and rafts. Twenty-seven of the passengers and crow were drowned. |Tho Walla tynlla was an iron-built vessel of 3070 torn gross register. She was built Hi 1081 by ,]. Hoach and Son, of Chester, Pa., U.S.A., and was owned by the Pacific Coast Company.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12243, 6 January 1902, Page 5
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176A FATAL COLLISION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 12243, 6 January 1902, Page 5
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