GENERAL CABLES.
Perth, December 14.
Owing to the telegraph lines being still down details of the Broome pearling disaster are coming to hand very 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 and another schooner and 16 luggers are reported as missing. Rubin’s schooner Bux is a total wreck. The captain reached the shore after being in the water for 10 hours. The body of the mate (Young) and the bodies of a number of coloured men have been washed ashore. The storm is described as one of the worst that ever struck the coast. It did a great deal of damage ashore where it wrecked houses and telegraph Hues. Much wreckage and thousands of dead seabirds are scattered along the shore.
The Japanese survivors from Rubin’s lugger Roy report that four of the coloured crew were drowned when the vessel foundered.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 443, 15 December 1908, Page 3
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160GENERAL CABLES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 443, 15 December 1908, Page 3
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