VICTIMS OF THE TIDE
THE FRENCH TRAGEDY,
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZIALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 10th August, 1 p.m.)
PARIS, 9th August. Further details of the tragedy in which eighteen children from Roubaix were drowned by being caught by the tide on treacherous sandbanks are available.
When Father De la Porte saw the danger, he called to the children to make a chain by holding each other's hands and follow him. Unfortunately, the chain broke, and the children, seized with panic, dashed frantically into the water, which lay between them and the dry land, though it was several feet deep. Some of the boys were carried out to sea by the,tide, and their bodies were thrown on the shore later in the day. The priests worked upon aome of the apparently drowned children for three hours before they were restored to consciousness. All the dead were. boys. There were shocking scenes when the parents, hearing of the disaster, hurried to identify the bodies.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 10 August 1925, Page 8
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