A Fishing Boat Swamped.
o FOUR MEN DROWNED. (Per Press Association.) Sydney, March 29. A fishing boat capsized last night off Botany Bay in the wash of a passing steamer and four of the occupants—Timothy Brennan, James Pemmaut, Thos. Robertson and Wm. Goldsmith — were drowned. Two other men who were in the boat swam ashore, where they landed in an exhausted condition, The accident happened in darkness, and those on board the steamer made no attempt to assist the unfortunate men. This Day. The steamer which upset the fishing boat reports that ovviug to the darkness the accident was no* seen.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 231, 30 March 1895, Page 2
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