["The Cossack Blow!", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 30 March 1912, page 3]
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Balla Balla (or Depuch) is the harbor used to supply the inhabitants sustained by the rich Whim Well copper mine, and is also noted for the quality of m.o.p. shell in the vicinity. It is situated about sixty miles from Hedland, a little south of west, and at one time the Government seriously contemplated building the Pilbarra railway from there instead of from Hedland. If anything more than another proves the wisdom in abandoning that idea, it is this catastrophe. The harbor is a net-work of reefs, and, in a hurricane, a perfect death-trap to any vessel, as this story discloses.
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