WRECK OF A COTTON STEAMER.
FIVE LIVES LOST. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON. Decemher 23. The steamer Freda,, laden with £2^ooo bales of cotton from Galveston to Liverpool, was totally wrecked at Mizzenhead. Cork, in a fog. Five, including the captain, were drowned. The rest clung to the cliffs all night and were rescued at daybreak. Tho •teamer and cargo were insured for over a quarter of a million. The. loss falls primarily on New York and then on English companies and Lloyd's.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9424, 24 December 1908, Page 1
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