CHINESE DISASTER
A STEAMER BURNT.
250 LIVES LOST,
[United Press Association—By Eleotrii Telegraph—Copyright.] .
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m) ■SHANGHAI, December 14. Approximately 250 Chinese passengers on the Chinese injter-island • steamer Tatch ai'A believed to have . perished early yesterday following an outbreak of fire,sixty miles from j Shanghai' according to accounts brohght by survivors, rescued by fishs ' M ing junks. Company. officials dispute the passengers estimate of death's, but the vessel was carrying six hundred, and one half of them are still missing. Eight survivors have already suc- • cumbed to exposure in icy waters. A panic followed the/fire, the cause of which is unknown. The .vessel was beached, but hundreds had already jumped into the water to escape the r i flames.
The Tatch was destroyed. The same Company’s vessel Taclii was lost in similar circumstances in March, when six hundred lost their lives.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1931, Page 5
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