Show I 1 I 1 N 1 I 1 A PORT N COLLISION CAUSES DISASTER TO A NUMBER OF VESSELS J f one ole steamer ier after another struck wreckage and two of them went down I 1 I 1 1 victoria B D C june 5 news of a remarkable series of 0 shiaw shipwrecks r eks oft Ithe the australian Austra 1 ian coast was brought by the steamer which reached imort IT ort last night aiom australia tho the leae bene Is the semaphore south australla australia where ocean going vessels wait s 41 anchor before traveling up port river r v er the tile bark norma with a full argo cargo of wheat rh eat was anchored there vohen A ben the ship Arden Ardene craig arched alrh ed and collided with her sinking the w wheat h eata laden vessel causing the death of one afian man hardly had the norma foundered I 1 when the coasting steamer jessie darling steamed over the wreck and her hull bull was pierced by a spar with ciflie tho result that in five minutes she wag was lasting on the submerged norma in seven and a halt fathoms of water the tha crew escaped with di difficulty U afterward the e steamer palm er e struck the wreckage but was not greatly damaged A day later the steamer port chalmers odthe of the anglo A australian line from london collided with the wrecks her plates being pierced with a cut out two inches wide for ten feet causing her forepart to fill I 1 11 |