CAPSIZE OF A LAUNCH

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2200, 13 July 1914, Page 7

CAPSIZE OF A LAUNCH

" SIDVEN MEN DROWNED. ■ By MoffiiapK— Presa inflation—Conyrts?hl, j. ■ : : Sydney, July 11. Last n Ighfc a, fishing party, of thirteen was returning from Tweed Heads when their launch capsized three-quarters of a mile fr.pm land.'. Six managed-to reach the shorn-.'in' an. exhausted condition. Tho .bod; f- ot tv seventhpAl\ Buchanan, drifted v ashore, and sis are iissingT— namely, li. "Arnold, C. Gibson; G. Pigr :gott, Fnjeney, J. Barrett, and Badham) A tugboat; was; prevented from .crossing- the jbar to for the missing men, owjng to the: high' sea running. Another vessel went ,'outi' hut signalled-j late last biight that her soarcli had been unsucces fefnl. '' The wc lather is bitterly cold, and, there is little hope; even if the>ineii managed to keep :jaflpat, that they. havG survived tho exposure." , 'j AOTACKED BY:SHARKS. ,j ■ ' (Rec. July 12, 5.5 p.m.) ■ ! ,| 1 Sydney, July 12. ; '.The bodies of three of the victims of I tho Twee id Heads disaster , have been recovered. > I. - When, the boat overturned tho big waves., running- m the channel washed tho ment,;, who were clinging. : numbed withV'thef bitter cold, off tho upturned hoat. : ' . -.' Buchanan mado gallant offol'tß to save Freeiiey ; ;ho became exhausted and was 'dashed ,r|gainst tli'e rock's - and :sank.' It is .evidenjt.that shares, attacked, some ,of ■the vic.tijms' while attempting to . reach tho land. .