THE BRISBANE DISASTER
A FIGHT FOR LIFE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrif-ht
Brisbane, February 18. There were on board the ferry boat Pearl a Kanaka named Matfcahable, his wife and two children, a girl aged twelve years and a boy of four years. Mattahable was a good swimmer, and when the steamer turned over he took his wife under his arm, and with the children clinging to his neck started for the shore, but the steamer came on top of him and thrust all under the water. Mattahable came up again, but without his wife. The steamer then went over him again, and he lost his daughter, but the little boy still clung to his neck. Shortly after the boy, too, was knocked off, and Mattahable alone of all the family got ashore.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9344, 19 February 1896, Page 5
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