MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
(liV IHI.KGIIAL'II.— OWN ('ORItKSPON! IKNT. ) Al'cki.and, Lact Night. A ti:i.K(;uam received from New I'lymoutli ] to-day status llmt of! New Plymouth a strnii|»o accident happened 011 the steamer | (Jlenelg yesterday. When o(F Cape ICginnnt - James (!eo. Sinclair, steward, was sitting j mi a rope, when a heavy sea broke aboard, and car 1 ied iiim over the side. when Sinclair was tun or Iwolvo yards from tlio viwad, the wave recoiicd and placed I ' him oil hoard again on the foredeck, when j lie caught hold of a rope and saved himself c from overboard a second lime. His escape was iniracolons, as the sea was too heavy fur a small boat to live in it, . and Sinclair inevitably would have been | drowned. The force which Sinclair went rj against the winch stunned him, indicting _ a wound. The captain turned the steamer i round and landed the wounded mail at the break-water, whence he was taken to the j hospital. I c
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2815, 29 July 1890, Page 2
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163MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2815, 29 July 1890, Page 2
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