DISASTER IS FEARED AS RESULT OF HEAVY STORM
SEVENTY PERSONS MISSING ON NINE SHIPS SEVEBAL VESSELS WRECKED. Presjs* Association—Copyrickt. Received 11.40 a.m.) St. John (Newfoundland), Dec 4, | Anothet Newfoundland disaster is feared, science continuing to conceal the fate tof seventy persons racludiug fourywomen aboard nine missing vessels IW'hich left on Friday for &V Banaviaut ports. SearcMng steamers have reported ho SUCOTSS. A hurricane which overtook the Vessels after they had landed ’their .summer catch of fish and Loaded their wiqter supplies, wrecked at least three other schooners whose ~crews were rescued, and battered a number of steamers. 1 \ After fighting the storm off the ■coast for five days and burning all the woodwork when the fuel was exhausted, the Norwegian steamer JJerta wen towed into port to-cay, reporting that three pilots had been ffrovropd off the headlands when, tthe pilot eapsiaed as they were attempting to board the Herta, One (• pilot was saved.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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153DISASTER IS FEARED AS RESULT OF HEAVY STORM Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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