THREE HUNDRED LOST.
INDIAN STEAMER FOUNDERS IN CYCLONE (L lilted Prm Association—By K ectrle T#.4Kr#Dh—Conyrlrbt > Received April 29, 6.55 p.m. DELHI, April 27. Nearly three hundred are believed to have been drowned in a steamer disaster on the river Jumna, between Natun Bharenga and Nagarbari, in the Pabna district of East Bengal. Reports from Pabna state that a severe cyclone passed over the villages near Jumna on Sunday evening, and it is surmised that a steamer named Condor, belonging to the India River Steam Navigation Company, which was proceeding to Goalanda, from Juggernathgunge, with mails and about three hundred passengers, foundered.
At present only the most meagre details are available, but twenty sengers are reported to have been saved. There is no trace of the remainder. The mails and mail sorters are reported missing.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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134THREE HUNDRED LOST. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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