FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN DROWNED. [UNITED PREBB ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill, September 30. On Sunday, the 15th inst, three miners lefb Cromarty, Preservation Inlet, m a small boat for Coal Island, which lies m the entrance. The boat wa3 capsized by a puff of "wind, and filled and sank. AH the men lasted for a good while m the water, but became exhausted by the continual rolling of the boat, and the first to sink was Thomas Leslie, aged 55, long a resident m Stewart Island, and said to have a brother m Wellington. John Koeller Stom, a Swede, aged about 84, was also drowned. A boat was put off and rescued John Thomson, the third man. Up to the time of the Hinemoa's leaving the Inlet, neither body had been found. The miners there run great risks, and the parties being small they can handle only very frail craft, such as they can carry to and from the water.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 229, 1 October 1895, Page 2
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