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Show DREADFUL STORY OF SHIPWRECK. SHIP-WRECK. Tbe good bbip Loch Aid, Inm; Im don to Melbourue, ft)uudertd ,11 tlm Australian coast on June 1st. Hud uut of seventeen paaaeDRera uud a lure crew only two persona yot uabine, Miss Evelina Carmit'huel ana Mid shipmun Thomas Peurce As tbe nioruiDg cleared aomewbat, the clitld were aeen close to tbe ebip, aad tbe captain gave orders to bave tbe boats lowered and tbe paBseuuers placed in them. By tbia time ibe sms were breaking clean over tbe ebip, and she was bumpiDg very heavily. Peurc, with five otbera, were clearing aw tbe port lifeboat, and tbe grips having been cut and tbe chocks knocked out, tbey were just about booking the tackles on when a heavy sea Blruck her, and knocked tbe boat over tbe bide, and all with her. Peroe got ashore by the help partly of tho bout, partly of a lalle. Shortly after tbe abipBtruck, tbe cabin tilled with water, but moat if not all. ol tbe paBsengere were up and dresaed. Six life belta were obtained from tbe luzareitee, but Ibe taga were iu tucb bad condi tion tbat it took some lime to fasten them -n. Four lad i en mid two m'U wore them. Mi. a Elini mid Mm.- Riby Garmicihael r.iii up thu companion com-panion ladder, and t the deck the citptuin aaid, "If you are oaved, let y wifekiow Idi(d like a British sailor at my pout." Ho was only married aix weeks before be left Loudon. Lou-don. A sea swept the ladiea overboard Miss Eveline tound tbat ehe bad bold of a beocoop; ahe was joined by Reginald Jo Dee and Arthur Mitchell. Tbey heard the BcreamBof the percone atill on board; tho ship was binking fast. The three floated into the entrance of Ibe gorge, and then the two men abandoned tbe hencoop for a Bpar, but tbey were caught by the undertow and carriod out to sea. Misa Carmicbael, who must now have been a long time in the water, caught siht of Pearce, oti Bbore, and screamed out to him. He bravely uwam out, found that ahe bad become inaenaible, and got her safely to land. He then climbed to the top of the cliffs in eearcb of assistance. He struck a path and followed it for several hour until be fall in wii.Vi A rr.r. .rnnlnU no Glenample Btatiou. The ' two men returned to tbe Bboie, got down the elide with the help ot a rope, and then found to their horror that tbe lady had atrayed away. They did not discover dis-cover her till long after dark. Even then ehe wae only found by accident, for abe lay in & comatose state under some bushes. Tbe midshipman and this young lady were tbe only aurviv-. aurviv-. ors. |