PEARLING FLEET DISASTER
MANY VESSELS WRECKED. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. PERTH, Dec. 14. Owing to the telegraph lines being still down, details of the Broome pearling disaster are coming to hand slowly. It is feared that many boats and a considerable number of lives have been lost.
Rubin and Davis’s schooner and 17 luggers, Goldstein’s 21 luggers, another schooner, and 16 luggers are reported to be missing. Rubin’s schooner Bux is a total wreck. The captain reached the shore after being in the water 10 hours. Tho body of the mate, Young, and tho bodies of a number of colored men have been washed ashore.
Tho storm is described as one of the worst that ever struck the coast. It did great damage ashore, where it wrecked houses and telegraph lines. Much wreckage and thousands of sea-birds are scattered along the coast.
Japanese survivors from Rubin’s lugger Roy report that four colored men of the crew were drowned when the vessel foundered.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2374, 15 December 1908, Page 5
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