TRAGIC SEA STORY
There are now two ships in this port which collided off Cape Horn one dark and stormy night in a thick snowstorm. They are the Glen Ericlit and the Balmoral. Captain Davies, of the Glen Ericlit, believing that this vessel was on the point of sinking, seized his wife and threw her ■ on to the Balmoral, and rushed to get his child to pass aboard the ship. Meantime the two vessels had separated and could not communicate with each other in the midst of the raging storm. In the morning they had drifted out of sight of each other. As Captain Davies threw his wife aboard the Balmoral he heard a scream which greatly distressed him afterwards, for it sounded to him as the despairing cry of one lost. His ship was not so much danmged as lie supposed, and he made for Monte Video, which he reached in due time. A few days since the Balmoral made the same port, and then Captain Davies learned that his wife had fallen short of the ship, and the cry he heard was the death shriek of his wife, who perished through his attempt to save her. — Monte Video Times.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8425, 25 January 1899, Page 4
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201TRAGIC SEA STORY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8425, 25 January 1899, Page 4
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