The Elingamite Enquiry.
(Per Unit d Press Association.)
Auckland, Dee. 9.
Dr Peattio said that on the day of tho disasti r he heard the boll ring violently in tho engine room. The ship continued to go ahead though the engines seemed to stop. It Wds at Ictist ii minute from the time tlio telegraph rang until »he ship struck lhe e wa.3 difficulty ami couimioi) in getting th i boats out, due almost to the inter o enee ol passengers. Ho saw five or six dead bodies in the water, humber four boat was pretty full. Ho believed the l ist ho saw oi h<r was on Sunday afternoon when ho saw a boat apparently ahead of them. They sucblcnly lost sight of her which suggested a catastr »phe. Dr Goldie sai l he saw tho chief engineer on deck when tbe telegraph rang. '• heio was some confu ion in getting out. the boats. He was cross-examined at some length as to the statement re the chief engineer being on deck when tho telegraph rang. Witness denied that ho was excited. Mr Haseldon, S.M., said the court was of opinion that the reputation of the chief engineer was not dl.c-cd by - the doctor’s statement, which simply came out as part of hi ) narrative.
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Southland Times, Issue 18015, 10 December 1902, Page 2
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