DEATHS IN LINER EXPLOSION RISE TO TWENTY
♦ Received Monday, 9.55 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 14. The deathroll as a result of the explosion in the "liner Reina del Pacifico has riseft to 20 with the deaths of two mofe of the injured. Three are stilRmissing and there are 29 injured, all' seriously. The . explosion occurred at the mouth of Belfast Lough in -the engine-room as the vessel was nearing Belfast after trials following a refit which took eight months to eomlete. She was due to sail on October 9 for the West Coast of the JJnited States. The hero of the explosion was Dr. Edmund Hamilton, the Ulster footballer, who was in his fjrst medical appointment. He worked three hours stripped to the waist attending the injured. The explosion blew all the ladders to fragments. Dr. Hamilton insisted on being lowered into the darkened engineroom where he waded kneedeep in oil and debris to drag free the injured who were trapped under twisted steel. He hoisted them on his shoulders, pushed thfem through the ventilators to helpers outside and then attended them in the ship's saloon. The ship's captain, Commander John Whitehouse, said: "He was absolutely tireless and his cool efhciency must have sa'ved many lives."
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 September 1947, Page 5
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