SEVERAL LIVES LOST
GALES AND SNOWSTORMS
WEATHER OFF NEWFOUNDLAND
ST. JOHNS, 3rd December
Gales and snowstorms off Newfoundland added seven deaths to the recent tidal wave disaster. Five men who set out in a pilot boat to place tha pilot aboard a steamer in the roadstead were drowned when the craft overturned.
The steamer Hofelstein rescued fifteen fishermen from two sinking schooners.
Six sailors perished in the wreck of the grain steamer Kiowa, in Lake Superior. Eighteen others were rescued by the heroic work of lifeboats. Guardsmen located the Kiowa by superhuman efforts. They got a line aboard and transferred most of the sailors by breeches buoy. The captain and the young son of the Kiowa's owner were drowned with five others when their lifeboat, which was the last to leave the ship, capsized.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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134SEVERAL LIVES LOST Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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