DISASTER FEARED
A NEWFOUNDLAND STORM MANY PEOPLE MISSING ST. JOHN (Newfoundland), Dec. 4. Another Newfoundland disaster is feared. Silence continues to conceal the fate of 70 persons, including four women, on board nine missing vessels which left on Friday for Bonavista ports. Searching steamers reported a severe hurricane which overtook the vessels after they landed their summer catch of fish and loaded their winter supplies, and wrecked at least three other schooners, whose crews were rescued, and battered a number of steamers. After fighting the storm off the coast for five days and burning all the woodwork when the fuel was exhausted, the Norwegian steamer Hertha was towed into port to-day, reporting that three pilots had been drowned off the headlands when the pilot boat capsized as they were attempting to board the Hertha. One pilot was saved.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 10
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