A STEAMER IN A CYCLONE.
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fPKB PRKSB ASSOCIATION.! Decomber 2Sth, 1.15 pge. Sibnet, December 29. J Information iiaa been received here that the Britieb India Navigation Compan/s steamer Blutidarra was caught in a terrible cyclone, ofF Madras. She had 600 jcppliea op board, and the sufferings of these, who. had : to be battened down, was intense. Five were killed outright and fourteea fearfully injured. The vessel h*i \ very narrow escape fioui fouudering, -
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7242, 31 December 1888, Page 5
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75A STEAMER IN A CYCLONE. Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7242, 31 December 1888, Page 5
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