WAVE DAMAGES LINER
COOK KILLED. (L'uited Dross Association.—Dy Electrit Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9. a.nt.) NEW VltOK. •lamiary Hi. The liner Majestic- which docked fifteen hours late reported a niainniot--ware crashed over her yesterday and killed the cook. Lenoardo I'iorni, when it slammed the i otnpanionway door, hurled him against the wall breaking his -neck. Nine other menthers of the crew and four first class passenger.narrowly escaped drowning. lons o' water poured into the depths ol the ships, flooding part ol the crew’s quarters and steoraee to the ceiling. Nile men only saved themselves hy swimming through the doorway down the eompanionway tip to the deck through a smashed hatch. Ihe water crushed tlie eompanionway wall trapping lour passengers behind the wreckage. 'I hen were unhurt hut were imprisoned until the crew chopped away the wall, the wave crackl'd the heavy steel hat; lit'ay like matchwood.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1929, Page 1
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147WAVE DAMAGES LINER Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1929, Page 1
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