Fatal Steamer Race.
BOILER EXPLOSION' - SHIP CATCHES FIRE. (Per R.M.3. Ventura at Auckland.) San Francisco, Sept. 12. Three hundred passengers on the steamer City of Trenton had a narrow escape on August 2S, when the steamer was burned on the Delaware river and twenty persons were burned or drowned, j It is admitted that the steamer was j racing beyond her speed up tho river to Philadelphia, when the boilers exploded and the vessel caught fire, and after being beached on the Pennsylvania side of the J river was burned to the hull. It is regarded as a miracle that any of the passengers escaped. The explosion threw a number of persons overboard and carried away both the upper decks. The remaining boiler made it possible to run the burning vessel ashore. Both sides of the river were lined with boat houses, and men with boats put out from these to rescue the passengers, who were pain stricken. 1 The captain and crew were heroic, and , the captain was the last to leave the burn- ' ing vessel. 1 The wounded were carried to a hospital £ three miles away, and men and women £ with tlesh hanging in strips bore their . sufferings like stoics. £ '
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 227, 3 October 1901, Page 3
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