THE LOST BATTLESHIP

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13236, 16 March 1907, Page 5

THE LOST BATTLESHIP

THE HULL BADLY DAMAGED. V

DEATHS INHOSPITAL.

United Press Association—Per Electnc Telegraph—Copyright. . PARIS, March 14. :

basin, has been emptied, and the Jena., is* now lying oh/JbloekVsi. suppprtedMay;shores.:r 'The forepart, of the. vessel is "intact,' hut the .aftevpart. is .seriously damaged. An enormous'hole, in har bottom to the starboard enable.* the gases •to escape; otherwise ('.she wqwld , (have been.completely destroyed. .Her armour, fcrews and rudder are uninjured. The iron floorings are twisted into strange shapes. . Twentv-nine of the Jena's crew died in hospital." Fifty corpses, were found piled in-one passage. The killed and missing are now estimated at' 118. • '. While the shattering, of the..dock-gates flooded the Jena's (interior ,'iwid : prevented an expicsioii of ihe principal magazine, it drowned the helpless wounded! in the loWer decks. ; It is expected that the Jena will be. repaired for coast defence or training purposes..' iii. All the .European rulers telegraphed their sympathy. ..•■,.• „. M..-Eallieres, in a debate, in the Chamber, of Deputies, : suggested that the disaster wa« due to. ifha'ievojecbe. _ .-The Chamber,;a.iid..the Senate adjourned to-day as a. mark of sorrow. ,