THE BROOME HURRICANE
THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PERTH, November 30. The official report on the Broome cyclone states that sixty-seven pearling boats were blown ashore, twenty-eight sunk at their moorings, and ten aro still missing (six of them aro known to have sunk, and there is no hope for the others). Eleven bodies of colored men have been recovered, and forty more are known to have perished. Three whites are also known to have been drowned. It is estimated that the damage to the pearling vessels runs from £14,000 to
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Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 6
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92THE BROOME HURRICANE Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 6
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