THE WRACK OF THE STORM
NERONG'S SURVIVORS PICKED UP THREE DEATHS FROM EXPOSURE (Rec. September 20, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, September 20. The steamer Canoribar has arrived at Newcastle. Sho picked up a lifeboat from the Nerong with eleven survivors on board. Three others, the chief engineer, the cook, and a passenger, died of exposure during their twelve hours' drift in a tempestuous sea.—Press Association. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. (liec. September 20, 10i5 p.m. Sydney, September 10. The Nerong'ti survivors state that lhe vessel left on Tiuesday night, -bound': f or the Nambucca Biver, dud met the full force of the gale in the! early hours o£ Wednesday. Tho vessel sprang a leak and drifted within three miles of Catherine Hill Bay, where she founderedat midday on Wednesday. The crew assisted each other into a boat, and were picked up, exhausted, at midnight. The cook and the passengers died in the boat. The engineer was lost when the Nerong foundered.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3196, 21 September 1917, Page 5
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158THE WRACK OF THE STORM Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3196, 21 September 1917, Page 5
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