HARBOUR TUG SUNK.
( : TWO MEN DROWNEE. By Telegraph—Prein iep-ooiatiofi—Copyrlsii* Brisbane, Ootober 24. Tho steamer Kyarra, 6953 tons gross, belonging to tho Australasian Steam Navigation Company, was proceeding up channel, when the tug Ohceterfiold, which intended to assist her. attempted to get across the Kyarra s bows to take a line. Tho Kyarra touched the tug and turned her over. The tug went to the bottom, keel uppermost. Thore wero fire men aboard. A. Roberts (engineer) and G. Birkenhead (fireman), who were in tho encinoroom, wero drowned. Tho othor three, who woro on dcck, wero thrown into the water and-wero rescued.
FINNISH STEAMER WRECKED. .WITH LOSS OF LIFE: ONE SURVIVOR. London, October 23. Renter's 'Agency reports that tho Finnish steamer Vestkusten has been wrecked at .Vasa, on tho west coast of Finland, and that forty persons have been drowned. (Rcc. Ootober 24, 10.80 p.m.) Ono of tho' Vestkusten's crew escaped. The vessel left Vasa on Wednesday. A heavy galo was encountered, and she ran on a. reef and sank in a fow minutes. The crew launched the boat, which foundered, its occupants being drowned. The survivor was ono of a number of flremon who clung to the rigging; tho rest succumbed to exposure.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 25 October 1913, Page 5
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202HARBOUR TUG SUNK. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 25 October 1913, Page 5
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