FIRES AT SEA
FATE OF STEAMER CIGALE. BOILER EXPLODES. MANY PASSENGERS MISSING. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Dec. 10, 11.15 a.m.) PEKING, Dec. 9. A Japanese freighter of 6000 tons has been abandoned on fire near Swatow. The officers and crew* were rescued by another Japanese steamer.—Sydney Sun Cable. • , LONDON, Dec. 8. Telegrams from Port Louis (Mauritius) give thrilling details of the burning of the steamer Cigale. A fire broke out in the hold and explosions followed, blowing up several passengers and causing a panic, during which’ others jumped into the sea.
Captain Berenger had hardly restored order and got the fire under control before the boiler exploded. Only one lifeboat was now intact, and when the order w.as given to abandon the ship women and children .were placed in the lifeboat, which was rowed to St. Denis, in the French colony of Reunion.
Seventeen other passengers and some of the crew jumped on to the captain’s raft and were rescued later, but twentyfour oil another raft are still missing.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1924, Page 7
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169FIRES AT SEA Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1924, Page 7
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