FINNISH HORROR
' LAKE STEAMER DISASTER.
(United -Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyrignt)
HELSINGFORS, Sept. 12
Divers have found appalling horrors in the lake steamer “Kuru,” which sank off, Tammerfors on Sunday last. At first it was believed that seventy were drowned, but the divers have discovered there were 145 victims, mostly, women and children, who had obviously been trampled down by men in frantic struggles between decks when the vessel was sinking.
Eighty bodies have been recovered,
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1929, Page 5
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75FINNISH HORROR Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1929, Page 5
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