STORM DISASTERS
MANY MARINERS DEAD. | United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] /ST. JOHN’S, Dec. 3. Gales and snowstorms off Newfoundland have added seven deaths to the recent tidal wave disaster. Five men who set out in a pilot boat to place a pilot aboard a steamer in the roadstead were drowned when the craft overturned. The steamer' Hofelstcin rescued fifteen fishermen from two sinking schooners. . Six sailors perished in the wreck of the grain. steamer Kiowa in Lake Superior. -Eighteen others were rescued by the heroic work of lifeboats guardsmen. They located the Kiowa, and by superhuman efforts they got a line 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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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1929, Page 6
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