THE PEARLING DISASTER
THE TALE OF LOSS. AN AWFUL SCENE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PERTH, May 5. (Received May 5, at 10 a.m.) It is estimated that the number drowned during the pearling disaster was six whites and 100 colored. Forty luggers and three schooners were lost, and the damage is £40,000. One Japanese was found after being five days in the water, and a Malay was picked up after clinging for three days to a deckhouse. It was at Geoffrey Bay, where most of the luggers were sheltering, that the hurricane burst in all its fury, and snapped the anchor chains. The boats crashed into one another in fearful confusion, many being smashed up. Eye-witnesses describe the screams and cries of the men as awful.
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Evening Star, Issue 12943, 5 May 1908, Page 6
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125THE PEARLING DISASTER Evening Star, Issue 12943, 5 May 1908, Page 6
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