SUNKEN STEAMER.
HORRIFYING REVELATIONS. (Australian Press Association.) HELSINGFORS, Sept. 12. Divers found appalling horrors in the lake steamer Kuru, which sank off Tammerfors (the chief manufacturing city of Finland) on Sunday. At first it was believed that 70 people were drowned. The divers discovered 145 victims, mostly women and children, who had obviously been trampled down by men when the steamer was sinking. Eighty bodies have been recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 9
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68SUNKEN STEAMER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 9
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