DEATHS IN STORM.
DISCOVERY OF BODIES. LOUISIANA TUG SWAMPED. A. and N.Z NEW YORK, Aug. 28. Reports from New Orleans state that 17 more deaths occurred in the storm in Louisiana on Wednesday. A naval seaplane circled over the marshlands bordering the gulf and discovered 11 bodies near a shattered fishing camp. Parties are searching near Covent, where it is believed six persons were drowned when a tug,was swamped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19420, 31 August 1926, Page 9
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