THE FERRY DISASTER

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5490, 15 February 1896, Page 6

THE FERRY DISASTER

; .LATER DETAILS. [Special to Pre&s association.] BRISBANE, Feb. 14. Tlie names of thosej missing are ihcreasing hourly, and the ■ greatest difficulty is experienced in obtaining a correct' list of the victims. Forty-six were rescued. I The following, in. addition to those already sent, are reported as missing, and, it is almost certain, are drowned : — Harry Jarman, William Hall, William Layers, Charles Kinder, Joseph Rose, Worthihgton. and O'Sullivan, Mesdames Messenger and Best, Misses Marshall, Gould, Yqrston, and some members of a family named Cook. Peter -Dowd, a s,urvivor from the Pearl, states that his attention was first directed to* the danger by a fireman on the steamer calling out to the captain some words which sounded like " I thought you'd do it." Then the crash came. Dowd caught the Lucinda's bowsprit, a like feat being accomplished by six others. Another survivor states that he saw little, owing to the great escape of steam. He thinks that many were killed by the bowsprit of the Lucinda. ; • Moran's daughter is safe. Clibbbrn is not among the missing. ' ' The police are ; doing their utmost, to arrive at; a correct list of the missing, but the difficulty ia enhanced by the fact that many people, 'scared ,by the. accident, did not venture to leave the} city for their homes. Thus their friends reported them missing to the police; Tne statement published that twenty-one bodies have been recovered, , was incorrect, as up to this present only two have been secured, those of Miss Barnes and Mis Harper. It is feared that the ' bulk have been -washed down 1 the xiver. • >A young man named . Jarman, , who , . is among the missing, had secured a lifebelt, . but gave it to bis aunt, saying "Saveyourself ; I'll be all right." M'Corkindale, while in the water, saw a friend who was rescued. He said "Good-bye; I cannot swim. Remember me to, my wife." The latter was also on board, but was saved. A labourer close by succeeded in saving two others and getting ashore himself. A passenger by the previous trip alleges that the Pearl struck the anchorchain of the Lucinda and narrowly escaped capsizing. ' '•-■... The flood water is subsiding and the debris has been cleared from the Victoria bridge, which is now believed to be safe. A movement- is' on foot for the relief of any persons rendered destitute by the accident. '