RIVER DISASTER
209 LIVES LOST
12 BOAT LOADS CAPSIZE
(United Press ’Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(United Service)
DELHI, January 22
During a big religious fair at Sangnr at the mouth of Jlooghlv, two hundred lives were lost when twelve boat loads (if seven hundred pilgrims capsized in a rough sea while crossing the river mouth, owing to the pilgrims becoming panic stricken and crossing irom one side of the boat to another.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1929, Page 5
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