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FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT.
Three Men Drowned.
: [By Telegraph.] _ :
Melbourne, October 8.
' A telegram from Lome records the loss
of : two lives by a boat accident. Three
men engaged in removing timber from the
wreck of Mr.' W. B. Godfrey's ketch
Clara, attempted to put out in a boat early
this morning, but were caught in the surf .
aiid the boat was swamped. Two of the
occupants managed to reach the shore, an d
Captain Gortley,seeing the danger of the
third man, Victor Godfrey, put off to his
assistance in another boat, but the boat
was immediately overturned in the surf,
and- both Gortley and Godfrey were
drowned.
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