A STEAMER STRIKES A SUBMERGED ROCK.
103 LIVES LOST. Seeeivd j% 29, MO a.m. Jlißßin, May 28. The French steamer Don Pedro, bound from Harve to L:i Plata, jstnick a submerged rock off Vigo, on the const of Spain, and sunk almost immediately.
Just as tho vessel was settling [down, her boilers exploded, killing a large number of those on board.
Tho death roll numbers 103, mado up of SO passengors and 23 of the crew.
The captain and 56 of the crow ftro the only survivors.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5038, 30 May 1895, Page 2
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87A STEAMER STRIKES A SUBMERGED ROCK. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5038, 30 May 1895, Page 2
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