FIFTH MAN MISSING
SPECTATORS HELPLESS
HANDICAP OF ARTIFICIAL LEGS
(Received October 2, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Further details of the Cronulla tragedy give the victims as:— John James Hodgson, 63. Robert Bantock Hodgson, 65. Charles Lamph, 37. Seymour Burrell, 63. ■ Stephen Gleeson is missing. The bodies of the first four have been recovered. There wore throe survivors. The people oil'shore saw the men go to their death, but were powerless to help owing to the heavy seas. The launch drifted ashore and became a total wreck. ■ One of the survivors, t S. Purchas, 24, was lowered overboard on a rope and attempted to free the propeller, but could make no impression on tho rope. Tho anchor chain then snapped and, tossed by a big wave, the launch turned turtle and scattered the crew of eight into tho water. Watchers, signalling with sheets, vainly tried to attract the attention of a^ collier, which passed within half a mile of the launch. Lamph had two artificial legs. His widow stated that he was a powerful swimmer, and had ho had time to take off his legs, would have reached the shore. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 9
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190FIFTH MAN MISSING Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 9
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