DISASTROUS CRUISE
EXCURSION STEAMER. CAPSIZES. FORTY PEOPLE DROWNED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT CHICAGO, July 28. Nearly 40 out of four score passengers, mostly women and children, who endeavouring to escape the heat by a short cruise on Lake Michigan in the small excursion boat “Favourite,” were drowned off Chicago when the vessel capsized in a sudden squall! today. When the storm .struck the boat, it listed and the terrified excursionists rushed to the other side. Almost immediately the side of tlie ship plunged under the breakers and the craft became submerged, only the upper-deck remaining partly above the surface. Some of the bodies have been recovered . When the storm passed, dredges raised the boat several hours later, when it is .believed that other bodies were found as the boat was pumped out.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 July 1927, Page 5
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