BROOME DISASTER.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF LIVES LOST. A TERRIBLE STORM. GREAT DAMAGE ASHORE. Received December 14, 9 a.m. PERTH, December 14. Owing to the telegraph lines being still down,.details regarding the Broome disaster are coming to hand slowly. It is feared that many boats and a considerable number of lives have been lost. Rubin and Davis's schooner, and seventeen luggers, Goldstein's twenty-one luggers, and another schooner and sixteen luggers are reported missing. Rubin's schooner Bux is a total wreck. The captain reached the shore after being in the water for tsn 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 great damage ashore — wrecked houses and telegraph lines. Much wreckage and thousands of dead seabirds are scattered along the shore.
Japanese survivors from Rubin's lugger Roy report that four coloured men of the crew were drowned when the vessel foundered.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 5
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177BROOME DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 5
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