GALES AND STORMS
SHIPPING DISASTERS 11 SAILORS PERISH ST. JOHNS, Dec. 3. Gales and snow storms off Newfoundland added more deaths to the recent tidal wave disaster. Five men who set out in a pilot boat to place a pilot aboard a steamer in the roadstead, were drowned when the craft overturned. The steamer Hofei stem rescued 15. fishermen from two sinking schooners. Six sailors perished in the wreck of the grain steamer Kiowa in Lake Superior. Eighteen others were rescued by heroic work in the lifeboats. Guardsmen located the Kiowa by superhuman, efforts. They got a line aboard, and transferred most oi the sailors by a breeches buoy. The captain and a young son oi' the Kiowa’s owner were drowned, with five others, when their lifeboat, which was the last to leave the ship, capsized.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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