SHIPPING DISASTER
CABLE NEWS
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FERRY STEAMER SINKS
MANY LIVES LOST..,
(Received April 10, 9.15 a.m.)
LONDON, April 9. Renter's Cairo correspondent states - that a crowded ferry steamer was sunk ""v, in the Nile at midnight, and that it is believed 200 persons were drowned.
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER.
(Received April 10, 11. a.m.)
CAIRO, April 9. The excursion, steamer lest in the Nile had 300 persons aboard. She collided with another steamer. The latter saved many. Seventeen bodies have already been v leooverd. [ The city is plunged in mourning. A TERRIBLE PANIC. NUMBER OF DROWNED UN- .... : r .JKNOWN.<s (Received Last' Night, 11 o'clock.''* ] , April 10. V i; A t«rrible panic followecl ;eq!li«s- v '■■' :ion.\ ~.„>:, h ./v^., ■•-.v..' ■'■. ,•.•- ''•' :'• ■'.•'.. ''; ] - The -numberof thedrowned is Atfll"'• * I unknown/ ' .-:'•-.• -
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10605, 11 April 1912, Page 5
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132SHIPPING DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10605, 11 April 1912, Page 5
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