SCHOONER WRECKED
OFF QUEENSLAND COAST. SOLE SURVIVOR'S GRIT. j Press Assocfatlon—By Telegraph—Copyright, i Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. BRISBANE, February 22. (Received February 22, at 11.5 a.m.} The search by a steamer has discovered that a man named Mackenzie is the »ole survivor of the schooner Oreti, wrecked in the cyclone on January 19. When the Oreti capsized her captain and his son and two seamen, who were in the cabin, were all drowned. Mackenzie and another seaman were washed overboard, and the other man was drowned. Mackenzie drifted to an island, -where he spent 19' days with but little food. Making a raft out of kerosene cases, he attempted to reach another island, but he lost his raft, and had to swim back. He spent 10 more days on the island, but built another raft, and reached a 'settler's house at Marble Island, almost exhausted with starvation.
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Evening Star, Issue 16665, 22 February 1918, Page 6
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148SCHOONER WRECKED Evening Star, Issue 16665, 22 February 1918, Page 6
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