HARBOR DISASTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10741, 12 November 1928, Page 5

HARBOR DISASTER.

YACHT OVERTURNED. ONE MAN RESCUED THREE BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED. (Press Association.? DUNEDIN, Nov. 11. A very distressing accident occurred in the lower harUor this afternoon, when a yacht carrying about six passengers capsized off the southorn side of Quarantine Island. The accident was first noticed when the ferry steamer Waiarelta. wluoh was running between the island arid Dunedin, rounded the point coming into the channel. The yacht appeared to be about a 16-tootor, and when first seen there were three men hanging to it, and another was seen about ,60 feet away. The last-named, however, disappeared before help could be sent. The water was very rough, hut a bandsman jumped off, the steamer, and tried to rescue one of the men hanging to tihe yacht, and held him up for some time, but he finally went down Reports of the accident are very meagre, but it is known that one man’was rescued, whose name is thought to be Victor Duell,-and one ether was brought back in? the ferry dead, despite continued, attempts to revive him by artificial respiration The captain of, the Waiareka dm everything possible -but noi other bodies could lie recovered. The accident is regarded as one of «i 6; worst that ‘have 'ever occurred op the Otago harbor. ' Details of the tragedy are as yet vague, as the police party investigating has not yet returned. >