Occidents and Fatalities.
♦ — FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST. [Special to. Pbxss Association.! 8T PETERSBURG, Nov. 29. Daring the recent storm at Odessa, five hundred persona lost their lives | Qither by drowning or by being frozen . to death. [Pbb Pbbbs Association.] TIMABU, Due. 1. A supposed case of drowning with unneual oiroumstattces was reported to-day. Mr M'Naaghton, a farmer and drover, of Winchester, who C»me to town yesterday, atayed to see his brother tp«dVv After tea at a boarding-house, he got 9> MWi l to bathe in the sea. He did not retard, eat was supposed to have gone with his brother. This morning the towel and a suit of clothes were found on the shore at a spot dangerous for bathiDg. Though a lot of M'Naughton's letters, &c. (except Borne money) were in the pockets, they are said not to be his clothes.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5428, 2 December 1895, Page 4
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