Show MIRAGE LURES VESSEl VESSE TO HER I Ir r By Special News Service SAN SAX FRANCISCO March 7 1 p l' l mirage lured lie tho American Kona ona of or this city to lo it its on Oil Kangaroo Island south of or A Aul Ha earl carl early in lit February according cablegram ram received from Crom Capi Capt Hanson hansen master maHler of or the craft aft A shore line sometimes visible sometimes Invisible headlands ti tl i retreated and a advanced remaining the time same name distance away f the lie ship no matter which wa sav 1 I turned destroyed the calculation navigation and finally landed a h b M dered creel captain and crew ashore J Cap Captain statement Is lal IJ by a report received by h hi f United Jim I tel S States ta t cs c's ii hydrographic Th lilt Ic i jf from front the schooner W W. II H San Francisco which saw aw tho tim a mirage and narrowly escaped I same fate I IThe The Tue Kona ICona was passing through ator strait and the gulf uhf ulC of ot Vincent on her hor way ay to Adelaide j 4 The Tue strait more than I miles wide runs north and s so Captain Hansen sailed eight milci milet the tIme west shore during the tho first nl ni but at dawn lawn he lie was surprised to not only the western btu al also eastern shoreline The latter ight miles t ts b starboard Iwas I 1 Iwas was a strait miles wide that Captain Hansen his mates decided they were vici of or an aim optical So they sa sain san in iii n a wide WilC zigzag and the easi cas shore wa was waa always ns just on the time hot hori while the western vestern shore behaved normally disappearing and lag ing as the ship altered its Ilo course e. the navigators decided that flint the r erly land lani was a mirage But later mirage became a reality and arid near entrance of or the tho gulf guilt tho the vessel Ton T v von on the beach of Kangaroo island The Marston saw the mirage avoided disaster |