WRECK OF THE KARRAKATTA.
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BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT |
Received, this day at 9 50 a.m Perth, April 2.
The schooner Alto arrived from Broome with 121 shipwrecked people aboard, being tho passengers and crew of tho steamer Karrakatta bound from Fremantle to Singapore. The steamer struck on an unknown rock off Cape Swan on tho night of March 2(sth and commenced to sink. Owing to tho coolness of tho officers all hands were safely transferred to the boats which hung by the sinking steamer till daylight and then lauded on Sunday Island. The vessel is a total wreck.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 April 1901, Page 3
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104WRECK OF THE KARRAKATTA. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 April 1901, Page 3
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