THREE MEN DROWNED.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 803, 19 January 1903, Page 2

THREE MEN DROWNED.

SWEPT OFF A ItERF.

, News was received at Warrnambool, Victoria, a few days ago that Major Ballimore, together with his brother Prank and a young man named Wilson, had been drowned on the coast at u spot known as Ryan’s Den, three or four miles from Cape Otway. The Dallimore family have carried on farming operations in the districtxfor very many years, and are well known and highly esteemed residents. On the Thursday morning Major Dallimore, his wife and child, his brother Frank and Wilson, set out for a picnic on the beach, a short distance from his selection, and camped near Ryan’s Den. They all had lunch together, and subsequently Major Dallimore, accompanied by Frank Dallicaore, who is a young man of twenty-two, and WilsoD, set out for Ryan’s Den. It is surmised that their object was to have a few hours’ fishing, but all that is known at present is that they did not return to Mrs Dallimore, who had been left with her child at the spot where the party had lunched. She waited a long time for them to come back, and eventually, becoming greatly distressed at their prolonged absence, reported the occurrence to neighbors. Search parties were immediately organised and patrolled the coast line without coming across any trace of the missing men. That they had all been drowned is regarded as certain, but the fatality was not witnessed by a living soul, and consequently the circumstances in which they met their deaths will never be definitely known. It is supposed, however, that one of the three may have slipped off the rocks into the water, and that all were lost in trying to save him, or else that they were swept off the ledge of the rock by a high tidal wave which broke upon the coast during the afternoon, and were carried out to- sea by. the swiftly seceding tide,