BIG STEAMER FOUNDERS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1487, 21 November 1905, Page 3

BIG STEAMER FOUNDERS

, Appalling Lost, o) Life : Her Lifeboat Picknil Up Empty v Terrible Scenes ef Grief ■ Preei AMoriation.—Copyright. London, November 20 Tub South Western Railway CompaDy' 8 steamer Hilda, in charge of Obtain Oregory, and with a orew of '2B "belonging to Southampton, and about 20 ordinary passengera and 60 Breton onion: sellers, has been wrecked at Oczambie> ..All on. board were drowned except ono sailor and four Bretons, who wire rescued after clinging to tho rigging for oigbt hours.i The Hilda left Southampton on Friday ! night, but was detained at HuVsteastle by I a%' Bho also encountered heavy turns and a■: enow storm in the Channel, :nnd a thiol; fog'noar Si Malo, and etruok tho rooks on Sunday. v The funnel and masts are vitiblo at low' wato'r, Hor life-boat has been fonnd, empty at St. Oast, whero thirtcen.bodiea huvo beeu washed ashore. ' . Four bodies btwe been recovered Rt St. Malo, , The majority of tho passengers were DBleep Mrhcn tho vessel etrack. - _ i Thore were terrible scenes of grief at | Southampton, St. Mqlo, Bnd St Bnen. ' Eeuter's correspondent at St.,- Sorvan reports that 128 porsons were drowned. Wellington, this day. ' A cable • recoived : hero states-.tliat the wife of the Hon. H. o<Bute, formerly A.D.O. io Banfurl* I ,' was; amongst those who wero drowned in;-the. wreok of. the Hilda' off St; Malo. Tho deceased was.B3 years of age, and waa the eldest daughter of' Mrs. Abbott of Wanganui. , She leaves two daughters.