STEAMER COLLISION.
A THREE THOUSAND TONNER SINKS IN TEN MINUTES.
SUPPOSED LOSS OF 2ln LIVES
VIED SHRIEKING OF DROWNING PEOPLE.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. Received 11.30 p.m., .June 8. PARIS, June S.
The Transiet Company's steamer: lusoliarc and Lilian collided oil Marseilles.
Out of two hundred and forty passengers and crew oi the steamer Lilian it is feared that only forty were saved. The Lilian was a vessel of three thousand tuns. She sank in ten minutes, going down how foremost. There was wild disorder amongst the passengers, the vessel disappearing amidst wild shrieking. Received 12.32 a.m., June !). PARIS, June 8. A sailor who was a passenger by the Lilian attributes the collision to the inellieieney oi the Lilian’s captain. The weather was ealm at the time oi the disaster. There was only time to lower one boat.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 911, 9 June 1903, Page 2
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138STEAMER COLLISION. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 911, 9 June 1903, Page 2
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