SHIPPING ACCIDENTS
STEAMER DESTROYED BY FTP** SIX LIVES LOST. NEW YORK, Oct. 18. According to a message from Mayport (Florida) at least six passengers are believed to have been drowned and many injured when the steamer Comanche, which left Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon for New York, wis practically destroyed by fire six miles off the shore at night. The survivors were brought hero by two vessels, which effected the rescue in a heavy sea. SALVAGE TUG STRANDED. SEVEN MEN BELIEVED DROWNED VICTORIA (8.C.), Oct. 18. Search is being conducted for seven men believed to have been drowned on Saturday night when the tug Hope, engaged in salvage operations at the freighter Eemdyk, stranded ten miles west nf here, precipitating forty-two members of the crew into the water.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19433, 20 October 1925, Page 4
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