THE SYDNEY BOATING FATALITY.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 123, 21 November 1895, Page 2

THE SYDNEY BOATING FATALITY.

HOW THE MEN DIED. 'Our Ovtn Corretpondmi.J fPER S S. MANAPOURI AT THE BLUFF.) Sydney, 16th November. The boatinpr mishap which occurred jnst outside Port Jackson Heads on Sunday afternoon resulted in the death of throe youths— Arthur Peek, 17, grocer's assistant; Wellington Vitolli, 18, grocer; and Charles $ulgan, 17, chomist'e assistant. Willis Hall, aged 17, grooer's assistant, waß also one of the party They started from Bush Cutters Bay in an open sailing boat for a day's pleasure The morning was hot, clammy, and oppressive, and they ventured outside the Heads in their boat and journeyed to a little inlet up the ooast, where they had dinner. Tho return trip was commenced in seemingly mo&t favourable circumstances, but just within the shadow of the Heads the faint north - westerly I reeze suddenly dropped, and a few moments after a southerly bust :r came raging along, stripping trees and blowing up dense clouds of dust in tho city, and raising a fierce soa outside the Heads. The party in the boat, after a vain effort to beat up against the fieroo squalls, deoided to turn and run baok to their camping place for uholtor, but whilst attempting to jibe the boat capsized Bui Ran sank at onoe, and was seen no more. Vitolli was carried away by the wavcß, and was also lost. Hall could not swim a stroke, bo simply olutohed the boat and watched the Bhore, which was only some 500 yards distant. Pock stripped, and aflompt«d to Bw»m ashoro. Half-way to laud the sight of groat waves beating on tho steop wall of rookß seemed to scare him, for ho turned back to regain the boat, but the swim against wind and waves was too nnioh. He also succumbed. Young Hall meauwhilo clung to the boat. Not hoing a swimmer bo was not tempted to loavo it After being buffoUed by tho waves for about two hours aud t.iroo-quartors, he was rescued in a very exhausted condition by two fishermen, but soon revived sufficiently to tell tho story of the accident. Hall states that had he boon loft a few moments louger he also would have been lost. -^^^^

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