DISASTER PREMONITION.

The Brisbane Courier, Thursday 6 April, 1911.

A REMARKABLE PREMONITION.

THE WARNING THAT CAME TOO

LATE.

The father of Master E. Rall, who left

the Yongala at Flat-top when returning

to Cairns from a holiday trip in Brisbane,

is in receipt of a letter from a friend in

Mackay, in which it is stated : " It was

only when the tender was about to leave

the Yongala, on her return to the town

that Teddy made up his mind to break

the journey in order to pay it a surprise

visit before returniug home. He previously

thought about spending a week with us,

but says he changed his mind. He was

eager to get back to Cairns. He suddenly

began, however, to feel an undefinable

uneasiness. He is not a good sailor, and

followed what he describes as an uncon-

trollable impulse, and came ashore. He

has been greatly shocked, and for a day

was quite ill when he heard from you

that the Yongala was probably wrecked.

I may mention that a little later the pas-

sengers could not have been transhipped.

The Yongala had not long left Flat-top

when an urgent advice was received from

the Weather Bureau, warning shipping

that a gale was approaching Bowen. That

is probably the storm which drove the

Yongala to her doom. If that warning

had come a little earlier Captain Knight

would have anchored in Whitsunday Pas-

sage, and so secured the safety of the ship,

passengers, and crew.