The Disastrous Collision in Cardiff Roads - To-Day's Particulars - Mrs Harford Interviewed - This morning our representative called to see Mrs Harford, the wife of the unfortunate steward of the Strathallan, F. J. Harford, who resides in Andrews-terrace, Grangetown. Mrs Harford, who is a young woman of ladylike appearance, bears evident traces of her sudden bereavement, and has yet hardly recovered from the fearful shock which the news of her husband's sad death occasioned. She said that she parted from Mr Harford on the Pier-head on Tuesday evening, only a couple of hours before the Strathallan met with the disaster. As the voyage was a short one and their separation apparently but for a few days she thought little of the circumstance, and the thought of possible danger was the last thing which occurred to her mind.

The next morning she was standing near her house talking to a Mrs Salmoni when a neighbour's child ran up to them crying out that Mrs Salmoni's little boy bad been drowned. This was the first slight intimation of the loss of the Strathallan which Mrs Harford received, and within a few moments further intelligence came to hand which proved beyond all doubt that the vessel had gone down, and that her husband was amongst the number of the missing. It was naturally a very cruel blow to her, and for a while she was in a state of inconsolable grief. This morning Mrs Harford feels a little hurt at the statement made in a contemporary to the effect that she was seen on Wednesday afternoon crying on the Pier Head. As a matter of fact she was so prostrated that she did not leave the house all day, nor has she since done so. She is the mother of two children and not of four as had been previously erroneously stated. - South Wales Echo [163] [361] 31st March 1887.

The Wreck of the Strathallan - In conformity with the come to by the Cardiff Corporation with the Trinity House, arrangements are now being made by the latter authorities for the blowing up with dynamite of the wreck of the steamship, Strathallan from the position where she now lies sunk in the Channel Oil Lavernock. The necessary cords and connections, etc., are now being laid, and in all probability the explosion, unless something unforeseen occurs, will take place on Saturday at about 11 o'clock in the forenoon. - South Wales Daily News [325] [361] 15th April 1887.

Blowing Up of the Strathallan - Operations for blowing up the iron steamer Strathallan, which went down after colliding with the steamer Adara, off Lavernock Point on the 29th of last month, were commenced to-day. Two divers, a Trinity House man named Sutherland, and J. Binding, of Cardiff, were employed, and succeeded in placing upon the sunken wreck altogether 400lb of gun cotton, which was discharged by means of a battery connected with the explosive by an electric wire. A loud report was followed by great fountains of water, immediately after which the channel was strewn with wreckage over a considerable area. Operations were discontinued upon the tide becoming too high, but they will be resumed day by day till the obstruction is entirely removed. It is probable that this work may occupy three weeks or more. - South Wales Echo [163] [361] 4th May 1887.