PERILS OF THE SEA.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 9 August 1921, Page 4

PERILS OF THE SEA.

WRECK OF THE AJ.ASKA. WRECKAGE WASHED UP. FURTHER, DETAILS. WILD SCENES OF PANIC. Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, August 8. Telegrams' from Eureka, California, say the lull details of the Alaska disaster are not. yet available. Tine steadier struck Blunts Reef, off Cape' Mendocino, the most westerly point in California, at ten o’clock on Saturday night, and sank within 15 miutes.

The vessel carried 240 passengers, and crew, and while, it is Sloped that some may yet bo found on life rafts, it is believed that 36 persons are yet missing, and will be among the lost.

Two vessels which rushed to the Alaska’s aid, on receipt of the wireless call, are still standing by, looking for lost people, on a foggy sea. Tugs from tiimo to time bring ashore a few dead bodies, twelve having ’oeen already landed.

Passengers declare that there were wild scenes aboard tire Alaska, as she listed to' starboard. Frenzied people leaped, overboard, men, women and children piledtinto the lifeboats, so Grat it, was a wonder only one of tire are boats

The wireless-operator is believed to have stick to his ship until she foundered.

The Alaska plied between Portland and San Francisco. Other messages put the number drowned at 48.

LIFEBOAT CASIZES. NEW YOR, August 7. It is reported that one of tho five lifeboats of the Alaska capsized, and that the occupants were drowned. Nine bodies have been recovetpd.