70 PERSONS MISSING
ATLANTIC STORMS NEWFOUNDLAND’S LOSSES (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received December 5,2 p.m.) ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland), Dec. 4. Another Newfoundland disaster is feared, silence continuing to conceal the fate <>f 70 persons, including four women, aboard nine missing vessels which left on Friday for Jlonavista ports. Searching steamers reported no success. The hurricane which overtook the vessels after they landed their summer catch of fish, and loaded winter supplies, wrecked at least three other schooners, whose crews were rescued, and battered a number of steamers. After lighting the storm off the coast for live days, and burning all the woodwork when the. fuel was exhausted, the Norwegian steamer Hertlia was towed into port to-day, reporting that three pilots had been drowned off' the headlands, when the pilot-bout capsized as they were attempting to board the Hertlia. One pilot was saved.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 6
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14370 PERSONS MISSING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 6
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