SENSATIONAL SURF ACCIDENT.
FIVE MEN IN GREAT DANGER, —■ — Y United Press Association.—Copyright (Received Jan. 13, 1.8 a.m.) SYDNEY. Jan. 12. A life-saving carnival, as the outcome of the recent beach bathing fatalities, arranged at Newcastle, provided a sensational 'incident. While ihe members of tile Manly Life-Sav-ing Club were giving a display,' the pilot boat with a crew of five, stationed in the surf in readiness in the event of am accident, capsized' in the heavy rollers. The spectators and other swimmers, .thinking it was part of the programme, took little notice until the men were seen clinging to the boat in an exhausted condition. Visiting life-savers then vainly attempted to reach them, and the rocket brigade also failed to get a line out. Eventually the men were rescued in a distressed condition, while drifting out to sea, by a boat fishing in the vicinity.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2087, 13 January 1908, Page 2
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