Burning of the Steamer John Hanna
SHOCKING DETAILS. PEOPLE ROABTED & STEAMED TO DEATH. EEEOIBM OF A SAILOR. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (FKB UNITED FRKBS ASSOCIATION.} Received January 29. 1 p.m. Sydhby, January 29. Further details of the burning of the Mississippi steamer John Hanna show the catastrophe was tragic in the extreme The vessel was wrapped in a sheet of flame three minutes after the first outbreak. Many persons were steamed to death by the burstuur of the steam pipes. When the steamer rebounded from the sand bank on to which she was steered, a great deed of heroism was performed by a deck hand named Giren. He sprang to the pilot bouse, and stuck to bis post till he had brought her back to the bank. By this time, however, he was imprisoned in the bouse, against which the flames were dashing in a wall of fire. Eventually Giren succeeded in reaching the shore, but be was terribly burned, and finally died in indescribable agony. Many of those who jumped overboard stuck fast in the mud, and as the vessel bnrned down to the water's edge were slowly roasted to death in the full view of the crowds assembled on the shore.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 87, 29 January 1889, Page 2
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