EXCITING RESCUE WORK.
LONDON, September 2. Heavy storms are raging in the Chanriel, and there have been many wrecks, with exciting •fescues. :■ - - - The excursion steamer Queen,- with 160 passengers aboard, broke her steering gear and grounded on a sandbank off Selsey 'Bill, the seas- sweeping dyer her. decks. Lifebelts were servedl out to the passengers, and when rescue came eight women and three children were thrown into the; Jifeboatmen's arms. This was at midnight, it being morning before^the men passengers were 'rescued.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 4 September 1908, Page 5
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