DROWNING TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 6

DROWNING TRAGEDY

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UI XFDIX. Nov. 11

A very distressing accident occurred in tlie Lower Harbour this afternoon, when a vaclit carrying about six passengers capsized off Hto southern side of Quarantine Island. The accident was first noticed when the ferrv steamer AYnireka, winch was running" between the Island and Dunedin rounded the point, coming into the channel. The yacht appeared to he j.hout a U> footer, and when first seen, there were three men hanging to it. and another man was seen about (10 feef a wav. The last-named, however, disaoneared before help could he sent. The water was very rough, hut a bandsman jumped off the steamer and Ined (o r-c'-'-ue .me of the men hnng;llcr |o the vaelil and Imld him up for Maine time, hut lie hnallv went down.

Reports of the aeeidem are vein in ; w /ro, hut if is huown that one man v, whose nan;.- is though I to |,„ Victor Duel!, and another was hroiudil hack in the ferry dead, despite continued attempts to revive him by artificial respiration. Tlie captain of the hrrlc did everything that was possible hut n«» f ,j li,., 1 bodies i-ouhl he recovered. The accident is regarded as one of IPc worst that has ever occurred on the Outgo harbour. IMails of the tr , iv are as yet vague as tlm police

party investigating has not vet n turned.