SEA MINES.
LOSS OF A LINER. IN THE NORTH SEA. Received 9.20 p.m., 'Sept. 7th. LONDON, Sept. 7 (a.m.). The Wilson liner Rono was blown, up after voyaging twelve hours from Hull. Tlie place where she struck the mine is not specified. The explosion occurred under the baggage room, where several baggage sorters were killed. The baggage was blown high into the air. Many of the passengers were panic stricken, and numbers jumped overboard. Others rushed the boats, impeding the crew, and three boats were overturned before they reached the water, and one boat overcrowded, capsized. The crew remained calm, ana practically all the women and children were saved. After the disaster the whistle was continuously blown, attracting Grimsby trawlers, which pushed to' give assistance, regardless of mine perils. The Rono's Russian passengers were not refugees, but had come from America.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 7
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141SEA MINES. Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 7
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