ANOTHER DISASTER
FEARED IN NEWFOUNDLAND
VESSELS MISSING IN STQEM
(Received sth December, 2.30 p.m.) ST. JOHN'S (Newfoundland), 4th December. Another Newfoundland disaster was feared on Wednesday, when silence continued to conceal tho fate of seventy persons, including four women, aboard nine missing vessels that left on Friday for the Bonavista ports. Searching steamers reported lio success. The hurricane that overtook tlie vessels after they landed their summer catch of fish and loaded winter supplies, wrecked at least three other schooners whose crows were rescued, and battered a number of steamers.
After fighting the storm off the coast for five days, and burning all her woodwork when fuel was exhausted, the Norwegian steamer Hertha was towed into port on Wednesday, reporting that three pilots. wale drowned off the headlands when tho pilot boat capsized as they were attempting to board the Hertha, One pilot was saved.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 11
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145ANOTHER DISASTER Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 11
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