GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
TWO DISASTERS. ' OVER A HUNDRED DROWNED IN THE- 1 I DNEIPER. BY J"I!LEOItAPjI7—PRESS ASSOCIATION— "COPYRIGHI ..... i. ■ St. Petersburg, May 4. \ A ferry >boat, containing one hundred and ( . fifty. Russian . peasants. returning from a church at Bykoft, in Central Russia,' capsized, in the. Dneiper. . Only thirty of .the . passengers were saved. - THE PEARLERS' ORDEAL 1 i LUGGERS DASHED AGAINST, ONE ' 1 ' ■ ANOTHER. . ' :i ■' . . Perth, May '5. | , The estimated number of drowned in the • pearling fleet disaster is six whites and one hundred coloured men; Forty luggers and i three schooners wo lost, and the damage 1 amounted to £40,000. ; • One Japanese was found after being'five i days in the water, and a Malay was picked 1 up after clinging to a dookhouso for three days: .'•■ ■. It was at Geoffrey Bay, where most of the' - luggers were sheltering, that the hurricane burst with most, fury, snapping the anchor ehains and crashing the vessels against one anothor, in fearful confusion. Many boats were smashed up. :; An eye-witness describes the screams and ' crics of tho men as awful. A similar disaster 'on a larger scale happened s at Lagrange Bay on April 23, 1887, when 'a terrific hurricane overwhelmed a large pearling fleet, and about 600 lives were lost. , . 1
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 190, 6 May 1908, Page 7
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210GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 190, 6 May 1908, Page 7
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