Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-18
White Star Liner Suevic With Six Hundred Passengers
 Aboard Wrecked
ONE STEAMER LOST
Many More Vessels Piled Up Along inc Rocky Shores While Passen. gers From Steamer Are Saved
 By the Brooches Buoy.

| " Star line steamer Suevic struck on the
 rocks and went ashore near the Lizard
 in a thick fog at 11:3o o'clock last
 night.
 The passengers and crew of the Sue
 vic were landed gradually with much
 difficulty by the Lizard life saving sta
 tion surfmen. No lives were lost. The
 discipline maintained aboard the
 steamer was splendid.
 There were about 400 passengers and
 160 members of the crew on, board the
 Suevic.
 The Suevic struck on what is known
 as Maentere rock, under a lighthouse
 The Suevic. which is commanded by
 Captain Selby, is of 12,50O tons and
 plies between London and Australia
 by way of Cape Town.
 Details received this morning of the disaster to the White Star line steamer Suevie, homeward bound from Sydney, New South Wales by way of Capetown with nearly 500 passengers and crew on board, show that she struck the Brandies rocks, close under the Lizard lighthouse, at about 10:30 last night and will probably be a total wreck. Lifeboats and tugs from the Lizard and Fal- mouth soon reached the scene and, together with the Suevic's own boats, began landing the passengers. The women and children were first sent ashore. There were no fewer than 160 children on board, many of them babes in arms whom the local fisher- men and their wives lifted out of the boats and carried through the surf to nearby cottages.
 A fresh wind, rough sea and fog hampered earlier landing operations, but the fog, lifted at t-apout seven in the morning and from thence for ward boats loaded with passengers were sent ashore in quick succession.
 By l D. m., all the passengers had been landed but the crew. were still by the wreck.
 Captain Selby, commander of the Suevic, had been at sea for 39 years and this was to have been his last voyage.
 The North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II during the morn- Ing passed close astern steamer Sue vic, which was then thronged with The wrecked steamers bow was low in the water, her fore were full and she seemed to be pinnacled on the rocks. As plenty of assistance was standing by the White Star line steamer the Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had been going slow for ten hours owing to the fog did not stop but proceeded for Plymouth, where she arrived shortly after 10 a. m.
 Almost within sight of the wreck cd White Star line steamer Suevic. the Elder Dempster line steamer Jeb- ba. from Calabar. Lagos and other West African ports for Plymouth and Liverpool ran on the rocks under the cliffs near Prawle Point in the early hours of the morning. Her 70 pas sengers, many of whom were soldiers invalided home from the west coast of Africa and her crew were safely taken ashore by the brooches buoy. Heavy seas are breaking over the steamer, rendering the lifeboats which are standing by the vessels useless. The Jabba will prove a total loss.
 Steamers. some of which are de scribed as being large. are ashore near. Rye. Dungeness. Dover and The vessel ashore off | is the British steamer from Novorossysk, Black sea. Her position is serious.