KING DAVID WRECK,
A FATAL MISTAKE. SURVIVORS CAST ON DESOLATE REEF. SEVEN MEN SUPPOSED TO HAVE PERISHED. liy telegraph, Press Ass’tt, Copyri'gh Received 12 10 u.m., Feb. 27. S.ydnoy, F'eb. 20 The Vancjuvoe mail brings details of tbo wreck of the Kmg Dtv;d. Th ) captain and bulk of tho crow wero | cast on a d'sclalo reef on the west const of Vancouver. Four weeks before tboy were rescued a eailmskor went insane and died on tbe day of the rcscuo. Tbo wreck was caused by Ibe capta ! n mstakiog a newly established light at Olryoqnoi for Cape Rorle. Tbo liffcfc in ifci Walhlcin, of Now Z?aland, with six soamui, left tbo eccnc of tho wreck oight doys aflorwards to obtain ass'-stance. It is supposed they perished in the storm which sub'equontly brought about tho loss of the ship Pass of Melfott with all hands in the same rogion.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1684, 27 February 1906, Page 2
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148KING DAVID WRECK, Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1684, 27 February 1906, Page 2
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