FOUR LIVES LOST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 December 1909, Page 5

FOUR LIVES LOST.

r open boaT:SWAmped in ; ;;; ; , ;'/ AUQKtAND. ;//':V-' ! ':' ; ; y ;. ADVICE NOT HEEDED.'-.;■ , : ! (Dy Telegraph,—l"ress; Association,),-. 1... '; V;-,-. ';..' ■:■ Auckland, Deumber 2G.;'{' ;> A galo has been.raging aU;;day. , Trees and fences 'have .been;blown' down,: ftnd, the craft in the harbour have .had, a sovord buffeting; One. disaster has already been,.reported, .: four. • young men being drowned in thd harbour to-day, their names- , being:';, ,/ ' .. : .', ;; , , Daris David 'Winter, aged.2l, residing. :'. in' Epsom;. Eoad;';. ■\-..',-. ■_;.. ■' ■"■.'■''•'.; , Hector Lovolock, aged,2l, p Mt. Eoskill,' :•: F. Kell,,aged 19,:,1 it. Eden.. -i : : p? •'■.-,•■ — JonkinSj'ngedlO,' Epsom Eoad.r. The deceased, who .wero.,mombersiof a party who camping at -Kohimaramara, near I: Orakei, : for , ~'tlio Cliristmas wont out fisliing, this-, morning in!a lift, open boat.'' They had got about half a •mile from 'shoro- when they passed the yacht Daisy, a't_ anchor. Tho| yachtsmen warned them not to go much farther, for; the gale was increasing in .yiolenco. men':on, tho boat laughingly replied that they •.would, bo "all right,'' but thoy had not gono morq than a couple of hundred yards farther when' they wore seontp be in difficulties, on« of the party, tearing .off.his.'shirt and-waving it,ns n distress, signal, and another: dropping the anchor, which''resulted iu'tho.boat being 6wamped and capsized; .' '' ■;■):; ;■■ i' :, ~

Yacht Going-to Rescue , Strikes a. Reef. • The four young, men were seea; ilinuina to the koel, and the.Daisy pulled up lici anchor 'hud started to their '. assistance, but ran On 'n:;reef from which'Vho had herself; to'.bo 1 tpwcil. oft'jlater.',' Two :.of ,'lhe deceased .'struck out ;for:, a scow lying sowo distaiico ; further on, but never sue-! coe<led'in.reaching, her.,' ;'■',. Another '.boat Epto'lit- to roscuo.'.tho | two youuE nien' 'Who. wore stfll, oliujjinu lq |ho caj>slzed c craft,- liu't.' ; was :iicar!y swamped, And /\vas ;uuablb. io ronder. imy help.,'.'■..'.''; V :: r-:: : \'y- : :k\ : :-/;'■':■■'_ ;.-;'-■

Motor Boat Arrives Too Late. When at length a motor boat reached the scene of _tho disaster, it \Mis fouod that all had been drowaod.