Gales Exact Heavy Toll From Mariners
ATLANTIC FURY. GRAIN STEAMER WRECKED IN LAKE SUPERIOR. Received Tuesday, 10.30 p.m. ST. JOHN'S, Dec. 3. Gales and snowstorms off Newfoundland added seven deaths to the recent tidal wave disaster. Five men who set out to place the pilot aboard a steamer in the roadstead were drowned when the craft overturned. The steamer Hofelstein rescued 15 fishermen from two sin King schooners. Six sailors perished in the wreck of the grain steamer Kiowa in Lake Superior. Eighteen others were rescued by tho heroic work. The lifeboats and guardsmen located the Kiowa and by superhuman efforts, they got a lino aboard and transferred most of the, sailors by a breeches buoy. The captain and the young son of the Kiowa's owner were drowned, with five others. when their lifeboat, which was the last to leave the ship, capsized.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1929, Page 6
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