THE QUEENSLAND STORM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11010, 14 March 1899, Page 5

THE QUEENSLAND STORM.

LOSS OF LIFE ESTIMATED AT OVER 400. FEARFUL WRECKAGE. By Telegraph-Press Association.-Copyright, Brisbane, March 13. The captain of the Crest of the Wave esti« mates the loss of life at 300. Further reports confirm the total destinetion of 40 luggers belonging to Clark's schooners; 240 coloured men employed on these boats are supposed to Lave all perished. Later. The hurricane came first from the southeast by east, and changed during the storm, from east to northward to southward, then west, finally dying away between north and east. The blacks on the mainland buried the bodies of the whites which came ashore. They are now burying bodies of the blacks. All the bodies were mutilated by sharks. The Warrego, which went to the scene of the hurricane disaster, has arrived at, Cooktown. She reports that 87 luggers, five schooners, and the channel lightship are total wrecks. Four hundred coloured men and 11 whites have been drowned.

Air. Outridge, a Brisbane gentleman, and his nephew, with a young man named Murray, were lost from the schooner Sagitta during the hurricane.

Three whites, Jefferson, Nicholas, and AN thew, were Inst from the schooner Silvery Wave. Captain Powell and two other white men aiso perished from this vessel. Four men were drowned from the channel lightship. A coloured man reached shore with twi women after swimming for four days. The telegraph office and all other buildings at Musgrave were blown down.