STORM IN SYDNEY
SHIP’S BOAT CAPSIZED THREE PEOPLE MISSING BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. Copyright. (Rec. February 11, 1.20 a.m.) Sydney, February 10. The terrific heat of the past week culmmatefl in a heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain and a cyclonic wind. At the height of the storm a ship’s boat, conveying five men and a woman from the steamer Baldina, was struck bv a squall in the harbour and capsized and sank.
The occupants of a launch in the vicinity witnessed the accident and picked up three men. There was no trace of the other two men and the woman, and it is believed they were drowned The names of the missing are: J. O’Halloran and B. Lawrence, and Airs. Haley.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 6
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121STORM IN SYDNEY Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 114, 11 February 1928, Page 6
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