SILENCE AFTER STORM
IPWTI' EDITION
TRAGEDIES ARE FEARED WRECKS AND WILD WEATHER (Aust. anti N.Z. Cable) (Received Dec. A, 2 p.m.) St. John, Dec. 4. Another Now found lend disaster is feared, sil-enee continuing to conceal tlio fate of 70 persons, including four women, on board nine missing* vessels which left on Friday 'for Bonavista ports. Searching steamers reported no. sncpess. A hurricane which overtook the vessels after they had landed their summer catch of fish and loaded their winter supplies wrecked at least throe other schooners, whose Crews were rescued, and battered a, number oi steamers. After fighting the storm off the coast for five days and burning all her woodwork when the fue’j was exhausted, the Norwegian steamer Herthn. was towed into port, to-day. • She reported that three pilots had been drowned off the headlands when a pilot boat capsized as they were attempting to hoard the Hertha.. One. pilot was saved. •
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2380, 5 December 1929, Page 8
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154SILENCE AFTER STORM Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2380, 5 December 1929, Page 8
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