TRAGIC DISASTER AT HOBART
SJfAffit 111 TURTLE
TORS PEOPLE DROWNED By Tfksnpii-I'rcss Hobart, April 21. A, tragic disaster lias occurred. Tits steamer Htioij, 730 tons-, was returning with a full load of fruit for transhipment, and also, eight passengers, when flic turned turtle and sank, and i !;•> passengers and c-reiv Were proe-ijiitateel into tlio water, Tho weat-t-or was dead calm at the time. The ExeeUa lowered a boat!) and saved all but thren persons— .Mrs. Gallon and iier son (aged four years) and Mrs. li is beliovwl that they msl.ic-.d. into tiro hold, slid Vi'otgf taken down frith tho steamer. Mrs. .Gallon had another eliiid aboard, nged nino years, It wi\s the only o.n.e of tiro family sated to meet file father, who was waiting en. tho wharf. Tho cause of tlio disaster is unknown.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2132, 25 April 1914, Page 5
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135TRAGIC DISASTER AT HOBART Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2132, 25 April 1914, Page 5
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