I have to chronicle a most disastrous shipwreck which occurred on the Victorian coast on the morning of 25th March to a small cargo and passenger steamer named the Glenelg, employed on the run from Melbourne to the Gippsland Lakes, a distance of about 150 miles. Only three survivors out of a total of thirty-three souls on board remain to tell the tale and even they seem to have but hazy idea as to how the catastrophe occurred. Seemingly an accident happened to one of the twin propellers, and it is surmised that some portion of the machinery, relieved from its weight, knocked a hole in her side; at all events she filled rapidly, though not before the oats could be launched, one of which with most of the unfortunate passengers on Hoard capsized, and as stated above only three managed to yet ashore alive. Those who could in the ordinary course of events have thrown most light on the accident were, sid to relate, amongst the drowned, and the events leading up to the disaster will it seems remain a matter only of speculation.
6th April.
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