![]() ![]() Immediately on tbe return of the rescue boat, the Nelson resumed her course to Williamstown. ![]() It is supposed that when the man fell overboard he got stuck in the mud at the bottom of the river, and the body, disturbed by the action of the steamer's screw, came to the surface. It was not, however, till the steamer Queenscliffe passed by the spot that the body was seen, and picked up. Wilson (the second officer) was lowered, and every effort made to rescue the man. When the alarm of a man overboard was given the vessel was stopped, life-byoys were thrown overboard, a boat in charge of Mr. ![]() This was just past the Yarraville sugar works. Tbe accident took place in the Yarra, a little below Footscray, in Humbug Reach. On Tuesday evening, 13 April 1886 at about 7 o'clock, a steerage passenger, named John Jenkins, fell overboard from the steamer Nelson, when on her way to Warmambool. ![]()
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