["Storm at Onslow", The West Australian, Wednesday 14 April 1909, page 7]
THE STORM AT ONSLOW.
FOUR BOATS LOST.
TWENTY-FOUR MALAYS DROWNED.
Onslow, April 13.
News was brought last night by Mr. Alexander, who was on the lugger Ada, that, owing to the storm, four boats the Penguin, Seagull, May, and Elsie have been lost with their, crews, who were all Malays and totalled 24 in all, or six to each boat. One Japanese on the Ada was also washed overboard. There are no boats here to run cargo from steamers to the wharf. The cargo per the s.s. Gorgon was taken on to Point Sampson, and what comes in the Junee cannot be brought ashore. The lighters with cargo out of the steamer Gorgon are still high and dry, and no effort seems to have been made to get them afloat, if such a thing is possible. It will he a serious matter at the end of another 14 days, when the next boat arrives.
