THE HURRICANE IN QUEENSLAND.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10294, 14 March 1899, Page 5

THE HURRICANE IN QUEENSLAND.

✓ Halted Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. i BRISBANE, March 13. ' The captain of the Crest of the Wave estimates the loss of life at 300. [ Further reports confirm the total ( destrucr tion of 40 luggers belonging to Clark's schooners, and 240 coloured men employed on these are supposed to have all perished. The hurricane came first from the southeast by east changed during the storm from east to. north to southward, then west, | ' finally dying away between north and east. ' | The blacks on'the mainland buried the bodies of whites which came ashore. They aro now burying- bodies of the blacks. All 1 the bodies were mutilated by sharks. Later. The which went to the scene of the hurricane disaster, has arrived at Cooktown. She reports that eighty-seven .luggers, five schooners, and the Channel Rocks lightship, are total wrecks, and that 400 coloured men and eleven whites have been drowned. Outtridge, a Brisbane gentleman, and his nephew, with a young man named Murray, were lost from the schooner Sagitta during the hurricane. Three whites—Jefferson Nicholas, and Althew—were lost from the schooner, Silvery Wave. Captain Powell and two other*white men also perished from this vessel. Four men were drowned from the Channel lightship. A coloured man reached the shore with two women after swimming for four days. The telegraph office and all other buildings at Mu-grave were blown down.