FATAL ACCIDENT AT SEA.
(rBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, March 14. ' Captain Oliver, of the Koronui, from Westport, reports that at 9.30 yesterday morning, when off Farewell Spit, three of the erew — Fred. Alhgren, apprentice, James Moir Wright, A.8., and brother of the second officer, and a Swedish sailor, were engaged cleaning the outside of a lifeboat. They were Btanding on a gangway rigged up for the purpose when one of the ropes broke, tilting the gangway up and precipitating the men into the sea. A toat was lowered and lifebelts were thrown and the steamer put astern, but before the boat reached them Alhgren and Wright had disappeared. The Swede managed to float till rescued. He said both men had clutched him.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5308, 14 March 1884, Page 3
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123FATAL ACCIDENT AT SEA. Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5308, 14 March 1884, Page 3
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