Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — A Horrible Tragedy. [ARTICLE]

A Horrible Tragedy.

A canoe recently left Loma Loma, in the Fiji islands, with natives on board, bound for Toytoya. They were going about when a sudden squall sent the sail against the mast, capsizing the canoe. The unfortunate passengers clung to the canoe, and might have escaped with consequences no worse than those which would have attended discomfort and exposure, but for the fact that the capsize occurred in a locality infested with sharks. The ravenous monsters seized their victims one by one, devouring twenty-three out of the twentj-five unfortunates whose lives were thus placed at their mercy. Of the two who escaped, one is a woman; but her situation is very critical, the whole of the flesh having been tom oft one leg.