LOSS OF THE CATTERTHUN.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8199, 12 August 1895, Page 2

LOSS OF THE CATTERTHUN.

(Per Pijkss Association.) Sydney, August 10. There seeras every reason to believe that Frask and Smith were overwhelmed in their cabins, and were drowned when asleep. None of the survivors saw thorn from tin time they went to their cabin, and the ladies wero drowned, aoparently because they were afraid to leave the saloon when they saw the great inrush of wator which followed the opeaing of the door by the chief steward. The Chinese quartermaster, who took the wheel at midnight, states that the second male altered the course four points to the eastward. This would show that his opinion was that the vessel was hugging the land too closely. Crate states that Mrs Mathias asked him for a life belt. He went to get it, but in the darkness he could not open the locker, but fastened his own belt on her. When he attempted to leave the saloon door was jarabed by water, which was then up to his knees in the saloon, The Chinese steward after great difficulty opened it, and the water instantly rushed in. The Chinese steward and himself left the Ja'ocn. Lu f . three ladies and the chief steward did not follow, They found the water on the main deck up to their waist, and had to force their way through it to the poop. Ho noticed the ship heading fer land, with the lighthouse on the port,bow,and the vessel rapidly settling down. After rising to the surface subsequent to the ship foundering, he gob hold of the meat safe, and was tben joined by a Chinaman, who, in bland persuasive tone, said i " More better for you go catchce another piece'of box." I replied : " More better you." . Tbo Chinaman declined the in* vitation, and as the safe was empty ib supported bolh. We heard shouts and' cries of distress, but only male voices.