A SENSATIONAL EVENT.
4 FLOATING LIRE A CORK. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Adelaide, March 27. On ths voysga of thi steamer WaroDga to Western Australia, a sensational event ooourred. One morning at six o'clock, when neariog Albany, a man named J. MoCabe, who bad booked at Melbourne with his wife and three ohildren, came on deck, mounted the bulwarks, and m the oooteßt manner poasible, jumped overboard. He was seen to go over by two paßsengera, who gave the alarm. The steamer was stopped and a boat lowered, but it failed to discover MoCaba, though careful searoh was made. The boat returned to the Bhip and was lifted to the davits, and tha steamer proceeded on her way, when a man aloft oalled out that he saw something on tbe water. The captain took a sight with hia glass, and saw MoCabe. The boat was Bgain lowered, and proceeded to McCabe, who was floating buoyantly on the water. Ab the boa* approaohed he called out cheerfully, " Floating like a cork." When he was picked up he had been m the water one hour and ten minutes. He was little th« worse for his imm«Bi«n. He had been kept afloat by his top ceat ballooning when he was going oTMboard. It is understood that McCabe had been eat of employnunt for some time, *pd wai de ititaU,
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 82, 9 April 1894, Page 2
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225A SENSATIONAL EVENT. Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 82, 9 April 1894, Page 2
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