Deseret Evening News | 1908-06-04 | Page 2 | Destruction of Pearling Fleet

DESTRUCTION Of PEARLING FLEET Forty and Two Hundred And Seventy Lives in Twenty Whites Lost Lost WERE STRUCK BY A TYPHOON Tel Tell of nf 01 on d h I Sharks Sharis for Victoria n 13 C JUle June Australian liner has here bringIng new ness I of oC the 1 of th the penning let fleet In imi I ii t typhoon phon or off Wet AUf Australia aln IIO tIme loss of 40 huggers ad and 20 i lIves 20 whItes whiles The to the fleet of penning lugger near Thursday island I U typhoon striking the let fleet just as tt was 1 for fOl th the the vessels wrecking some seine driving other others ashore About boUL 20 Vr lost lost Other were Manla lala men Japanese anti l alas SurvIvors reported harrowing expert sOle being up In tho last stages of ater after having ell cut aWI their clinging to 10 the Iho huk while hie sharks waiting for or the e exhausted men melt to drop flom the tho wreckage were res clued by the Puno from Brom as a relIef The bodies bodle of oC some Romo of the victIms w were eaten by sharks The beach near Brome PI Tint Blied a a terrible sIght covered with all and bodIes