The Kanahookar's Crew.
CAPTAIN AND ENGINEER PERISH.
FATE OF OTHERS UNCERTAIN. Brisbane, Jan. 3. — News has been received of Captain Campbell and party, who landed in a boat after the steamer Kanahookar foundered in the Gulf of Carpentaria. They journeyed a considerable distance along the coast, swimming rivers and creeks. Fellon, the engineer, died from exposure. Captain Campbell was drowned crossing a river. Tho other two, the fireman and cook, were picked up by a stockman and taken to Mcntina station. The steamers not having returned, the fate of the boat in charge of the mate of the steamer ia still involved in mystery.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6893, 3 February 1894, Page 2
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104The Kanahookar's Crew. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6893, 3 February 1894, Page 2
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