FATE OF FISHERMEN.
ICE-FLOE DRIVEN OUT TO SEA. (Per Press Association.) HELSTNGFORS,- February 9. • A fresh gale drove the ice-floe to sea. A hundred men were rescued, but it is believed that the rest have been drowned. Two ice-breakers are searching for them. Previous cables explain this sad tragedy of the sea. It was stated that a fishing village established on the ice outside Bjprko Sound, consisting of 253 men, with their huts and horses, was carried to sea during a violent gale, and at first rescue seemed impossible. The icefloe stranded near the island of Seibkar. Despite the fact that the temperature was 18 degrees below zero, the fishermen refused to abandon their huts and horses. They had, it was added, made an extraordinarily fine catch of fish,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12377, 10 February 1911, Page 5
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129FATE OF FISHERMEN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12377, 10 February 1911, Page 5
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