ACCIDENT ON THE ORION.
TWENTY MEN SEVERELY BURNED. By TolcfraDh-jPrcee ABsoefatlon-GoDjrlehl London, December 12. During her trials at Portsmouth, tho battleship Orion's electrical equipment overheated tho oil-tank bearings, and created an inflammable- vapour, which, igniting, burst a drum. Tho burning oil escaped, transporting to tho dynamoroom a sheet of flame. Three Admiralty officials, four officers, and thirteen others wero severely burned. Fourteen had to bo sent to hospital,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1311, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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68ACCIDENT ON THE ORION. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1311, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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