STRANDED AND STARVING.
SHIP'S COMPANY'S SAD PLIGHT. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. November 18, 0.50 a.m.) '■'•.-' ■■■ New York, "November 17. The passengers and' crow of the steamer Portland, to the number of eighty-three, who landed on Katalla Island, where the steamer stranded on an uncharted rock at the mouth of the Katalla River; are starving. Owing to the.gale continuing it is impossible for steamers to outer the harbour. Further attempts are being made to reach the castaways. . [A previous cable message ■ stated that but. few people live on Katalla ' Island, and that the- food supply- 'is scanty. , ] . ... .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 977, 18 November 1910, Page 5
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