THE YONGALA WRECK.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13340, 31 March 1911, Page 5

THE YONGALA WRECK.

THE SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS. Theory as to How the Disaster Happened Press Association.—Telegraph,—Copyright. BRISBANE, March 30. The whole coast is being patrolled by search steamers from Townsville to the south of Cape Bowling Green. The only other wreckage found is a couple of lifebuoys, a hatch, a grating, and a few other small relics which were brought by the steamer Alert to Townsville, and wore discovered on the Wheeler Beef, 30 miles north-east of Cape Bowling Green. Other steamers arc still out, but the chances of finding any survivors are considered remote. The Yongala passed Dent Island at G at night, and the cyclone broke a couple of hours afterwards, giving l her time to get through Whit Sunday Passage. Hie theory is that the captain was' running for shelter in the dark, in a tempestuous eca, when the vessel struck a reef and ripped her bottom out. The local manager of the Adelaide Company scouts the idea that the Yongala turned turtle. The lists have been revised as far as possible, and make the number of the crew 72, and the passengers about 50. There are possibly one or two other passengers whose names have not appeared on the list. WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND. Received March 31, 10.5 a.m. BRISBANE, March 31. A movement is afloat to start a Yongala widows’ and orphans’ fund.