THE TARARUA DISASTER

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 140, 14 May 1881, Page 3

THE TARARUA DISASTER

. i "WTNDHAM, Thursday. The body of B. W. Jones, late purser, was recovered yesterday afternoon, and identified by the name written on his shirt, and a paper found on his body. Pour more bodies were washed ashore to-day, two of them being headless. They were moßt fearful objeots to behold, and, indeed, all the bodies now coming ashore are m a dreadful condition, and the police, who are compelled not only to handle them but examine them minutely m the hope i of identification, deserve the greatest commiseration. There are twelve constables still on the beach

amongst them being Superintendant Buckley and Detective Twohy, of Invercargill, both of whomhave been untiring m their efforts to recover and identify the bodies, and who have earned the gratitude of the friends of the deceased passengers who have visited the scene of the wreck by their civility and ever readiness to render them all the assistance m their power. The Dunedin constables probably return tomorrow. There is a petition going the round here for signatures, having for its object the establishment of a telegraph station at Fortrose, the nearest township to the scene of the disaster. The nearest telegraph station at present is "Wyndham — a distance of between thirty and thirty-five miles from the beach. There has been no wreckage of any value come ashore up to the time of the reporter leaving the beach.