ANOTHER BOATING ACCIDENT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 23 October 1911, Page 5

ANOTHER BOATING ACCIDENT.

A LAUNCH TENDER CAPSIZED. FOUR MEN DROWNED. WELLINGTON, Monday. Four Lives were lost 'by a boat accident near Cap- Turnagai'n, on the East Coast. The steamer Fanny was loading wool from the beach for /the Wingaetu station, and the boat was the means of tender. While making a trip with 16 (bales tht tender's engine stopped, and the craft turned broadsid'e on to the waves, and was upset, ail four men on board being drowned. The names of tlio victims are:—A. L. Roff, aged 23; A. Johaiusen, aged 26; 0. Olsen, aged 26; and J. Jorgensen, aged 23. Two of the men clung to a bale of wool for some time {.ill it bee-ami* saturated and sank. The otiher two elmig to the boat, but were washed off. The Fanny's lifdboat was Lowered, but could' mot reach the men in ti.iiTo. After cruising about without result slu; went on to Napier, and is to visit the scene of th® accident again this morrung, though there is no hope. All the men were single.

FURTHER DETAILS. HOW THE itGCIDENT OCCURRED. NAPIER, Monday. According to a statement by 'Captain Slurb v. master of ftihe steamer Fanny, after "the two men an- the oa.psi7.ed boat who were clinging to a bale of wool disappeared. the two remaining members of

the crew clung t > ili-e bow of the boat, which was stianded uii the rocks in :i position. Shortly afterwards a sea broke over the boat, washing the men -off.

A- suoii . til.- Jin :'h ;t p v.\« :• ~vcn n hi'boat. was liiuii. hov't- tnwu the Fanny and pulled in tin- direction <'i tli,, ])lir;. bill, mine of the missing aiuj.ii was seen. When the surf boat tunned turtle there were also some .Maoris in it, but they sprang intio tihe sea, and swam ashore.

Four men were drowned, though they are all known to have been 'good swimmers. .Ross was a Scots-man. and the others Norwegians. The accident wias wil ne.-,sod from the f-hore by a number of p-v>ple. tint they were unable to give assistance. The Fanny returned this -morning to search for the bodies.