STEAMER DISASTER
TWENTY SURVIVE FROM LIST OF 300 MAILS AND SORTERS MISSING DELHI, Tuesday. Nearly 300 people are believed to have been drowned in a steamer disaster on the River Jumna, between Natun Bharenga and Nagarbari, in the Pabna district of East Bengal. Reports from Pabna state that a severe cyclone passed over the villages near Jumna on Sunday evening and it is surmised that the steamer—the Condor, belonging to the India River Steam Navigation Company—which was proceeding to Goalanda from Juggernathgunge with mails and about 300 passengers, foundered. At present only the most meagre details are •to hand, but 20 passengers are reported to have been saved. There are no traces of the remainder. The mails and the mail sorters are reported missing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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124STEAMER DISASTER Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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