FIGHT FOR LIFE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12466, 16 February 1909, Page 2

FIGHT FOR LIFE.

. - '.. THE BOATS IN THE SURF. ; It is believed from their position > that the three boats were intact until they got into the surf and capsized '<_ not far from the shore. This is fur- >. ther borne out by the appearance of >. the bodies. Dead bodies do not i bruise^ but nearly all the corpses are > much injured about the head, and face - and. in some cases are covered with - blood, showing what a stern fight • must .have taken place in the dark 1 hours of that wild night among the ' bristling rocks that stand up Uke r needles along the shore. - * Although yesterday was wild "'and' » stormy numbers of people trudged out l over the rough country, either search- •' ing for friends or to 'lend a hand 1 Specially mentioned among the work- . ers are Troopers Sims and Gardiner, 1 who toiled all day on Saturday pull- ' itfg the bodies out of the surf. 1 One pathetic incident happened bn s the beach. . Tlie searcher lifted the f blanket from the face of a. dead woil man. It was not the one he wanted, \ but a man standing 'by exclaimed: 1 "That's my wife!"