QUEENSLAND CYCLONE
OVER FIFTY LIVES LOST.
[BY CABLE —PEESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]
CAIRNS, March 15., The cyclone deaths jumped from ten to fifty when a report vvas'Veceifed from Fort. Douglas, saying fhat two more luggers founderbd In. 'terrific sea? at Bat Reef, twenty miles ' ' due east of Port Dougla.
It is feared that still another lugger named the Alexsa. has also been lost.
Altogether six boats, comprising three launches and three luggers, at.e missing. It is practically certain that they have all foundered. An aerial search for the survivor? has been made without result.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1934, Page 5
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