LAUNCH DISASTER IN JAMAICA
FIFTEEN NEGROES DROWNED (Received December 27, 11.15 p.m.) KINGSTON (Jamaica), Dec. 26. An overloaded harbour launch, carrying a happy Christmas crowd, overturned here less than half a mile from the shore. Fifteen were drowned, including four children. Twenty-one were rescued, three in a critical condition. All were negroes. Confusion hampered rescue boats which rushed to the scene. One pitiful survivoi was a nursemaid, whose three charges, all under 10 years of age, were drowned.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21976, 28 December 1936, Page 7
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