SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON A STEAMER. Brisbane, Dece mber 14.
Telegraphic advices from Mackay report that a fatal shipping accident occurred at that port to-day. The s.s. Griinga, with 150 excursionists on board, dragged her anchor, and drifted on a reef, damaging her keel. She then steamed into the stream, but her line becoming jammed, carried away the stanchions and othe/ gear, crushing a woman named Holland and a sailor named Campbell to death. Several other persons sustained injuries.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 1
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78SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON A STEAMER. Brisbane, December 14. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 1
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