TERRIBLE ICE TRAGEDY.
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST. By Tolcirapli—Press Association—CopyrleM. St. Petersburg, February 28. In connection with tlio breaking awa.v, in tho Gulf of Finland, of an ice-floo on which wert. 500 fishermen, who were carried out to sea, 120 of the men have been rescued. Tho survivors experienced terriblo sufferings for tlireo days and nights. Tho floe was constantly breaking, and masses would disappear bearing from forty to sixty persons. Numbers woro drowned in intersiifcs of tho fioo in the prescnco of their comrades.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1065, 2 March 1911, Page 5
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85TERRIBLE ICE TRAGEDY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1065, 2 March 1911, Page 5
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