STEAMER STRIKES MINE.
BELGIAN REFUGEES DROWNED Received Tuesday, 9.40 p.m. London, Tuesday. A Belgian refugees steamer struck a mine off Boulogne. Thirty were drowned in the panic. The rest were landed at Folkestone.
DETAILS OP DISASTER. PANIC-STRICKEN REFUGEES. A GALLANT RESCUE. Received this day, 9.25 a.m. London, Tuesday. After the explosion on the Belgium refugee Bteamer, Admiral Ganteaume, the vessel commenced to settle on almost an even keel. The Bteamer Queen and two French torpedoera sped to her assistance. Meanwhile men and women who had panicked, rjshed to the aides gesticulating and screaming for help. As the Queen approached a number of men and women jumped over board. Some failed to grasp the ropo and lifeboats. Fifteen others were crushed between the two ships. One boat capsized and three were drowned. The sea proving too rough to launch the boats the Queen finally manoeuvred alongside and the refugees, who were the poorest of the poor, scrambled aboard, tumbling over each other with fright. Despite the disorder, tho Queen rescued over two thousand in twenty minutes. The captain of the Queen states thß disaster was due to a mine; others attribute it to a boiler explosion.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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195STEAMER STRIKES MINE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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