STEAMER AFIRE
SINKS AT PIER
lUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ]
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m) HAMILTON, (Ontario), Julie 17
The motor ship Burmude, of twenty thousand .tons, operated by Furness Burmude line between here and New York, sank, at the pier to-day. The bridge superstructure burned away, the stern resting on the bottom. Fjre broke out in the elevator shaft necessitating the flooding of the stern tanks. ‘ .
Four men were badly burned. There was no loss of life and no passengers were aboard.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 5
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84STEAMER AFIRE Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 5
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