MARINE DISASTER.
A CONVIUT LAUNCH CAPSIZED. j PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION. ! Ktceive'l 18,0.55 a.m. Noumea, October 17. A terrible disaster occurred to day. Thes'e imer S*:. Pierre was disembarking thirty recidivistes from the Me of iPicis into a launch, when the latter capsize?!, ard al : , including three wom>n and the warders, were thrown into tho water. The Kanaka crew of ■ the St. Pierre sived fifteen, iocludi' the women. At least fifteen, including a warder, were drowned. Seve al bodies were recovered.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 237, 18 October 1901, Page 3
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80MARINE DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 237, 18 October 1901, Page 3
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