STEAMER ROUNDERS
300 DROWNED
■ ■ (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright; )
DELHI, April 29
Nearly three hundred people are believed to have been drowned in a steamer disaster, that > occurred on the River ijumma, .between Naitun-Bhar-onga and Ngarbari, in the Palma district of East Bengal. Reports from ; Palma state that a .severe cyclone passed over the villages near Juma on Sunday evening, and it is surmised that the steamer, named the “Condor,’’ and belonging to the Indian River Steam Navigation Company, which was proceeding to Goalanda. from J uggernthgunge, with mails and about three hundred passengers, foundered. At present there!are only the most meagre details, but,over twenty yf the passengers are' reported to have been saved. ~ There is no trace of .the remainder of the passengers.'
The mails and the mail sorters are also reported to be-missing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1930, Page 5
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135STEAMER ROUNDERS Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1930, Page 5
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