Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1897-06-15 | Page 8 | Struck by a Squall

I STRUCK BY A SQUALL Crew of the British Ship Linkora I Have a Narrow Escape San Francisco June 14 Advices from I Acapulco per steamer City of Para I have been received giving particulars rof I wreck of the British ship Linkora on CHPDerton roof on May 2 I appears ap-pears that while on the voyage from Puget Sound to England with a cargo of lumber the Kinkora was struck by a squall and dismasted on May 1 when some 600 miles northwest of Aca ulco Captain McMurMe made an effort to rig up Jury masts in the hope of makIng mak-ing the nearest port but another storm drove the vessel on Clipperton reef that nit and the crew of 27 men landed on the reef and ramped thereAfter there-After vainly waJMng for a passing sail for some days the first officer and a crew of six men volunteered to make the trip to Acapulco which they finally reached more dead than alive on June 3 When the rescuing part left Clip perton island there was sufficient food to last the remaining 20 men about four months