SUNK BY LIGHTNING
TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF A STEAMER’S CREW.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, WASHINGTON, November 26.
The Navy Department announces that fourteen members of the crew of the American steamer Dumaru, which was struck by lightning and sunk on October 16th oil Guam, have landed at the Philippines. They spent thirtyseven days in an open boat, and eighteen men perished. The, i purvi,VQrs j , were without food or water fpr.rtpn, days, and they rowed 1200 miles.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10138, 28 November 1918, Page 5
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