PATHETIC TRAGEDY.
FATHER WITNESSES DROWNING OF HIS CHILDREN. By Telegraph—Press Association—CcpyTleht "Tames"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. Berne, September 17. An orohestra conductor was orossing Lako Lucerne in a steamer to attend a rehearsal. Tlio vessel collided with a skiff containing 'his son and daughter. Tho son was crushed and killed, but the girl was saved. The father, frantic with grief, had to ■be bound with ropes to prevent him committing suioide, and while tho passengers wero attending to him the girl recovered consciousness, sprang overboard, and was drowned'.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1859, 19 September 1913, Page 7
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87PATHETIC TRAGEDY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1859, 19 September 1913, Page 7
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