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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 4 February 1914, Page 5

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! DESTHoyEP AT WAXGA*®W LOADED WIT JI A FJREiU-V KILLED. ffH By Telegraph—Press The steamer Monf'bound ganui front Wellington, id on roadstead, five niileri from t4io She is' ablaze front stem to etern^l^M The Arajmwiv is standing lighters arc going to Iter is repotted that there is no ing the vessel, which has a loftd zino and kerosene on board, : Wellington at 11 o'clock lut was .sighted by th o pilot, at S.iSmK | It is presumed "the crew has : vessel, as boats were acen [glasses going backwards and foffWH | to the AntpawaJ t The Arapawa arrived ftt tho U.4j a.m. with tho survivor* Mon, one of whose firemen, ncdv, was killed. : it appears of ting on the hatch at tie itpm -nH vessel when suddenly* otr j eurred, killing him credibly short space was ablaze from stent flames leaping from The were the boats, which were They bits of wood overbtnvd into tho sea. Meanwhile the been lying about a jni!e ing to the assistance pf could not approach of the burning vessel^riiuf>^^^^^H pawn, herself was loaded cases of bonane and vessel's position at that distance. Boats from the Arapawa and the men were picked op, r So suddenly did the leave the doomed vessel impossible to attempt to body of their unfortunate it was there could have for those aboard the Man pawa not been handy. i One fireman was rather but the others escaped unhurt. The iloa, in charge- of ver, left Wellington at 7 p.m. with 844 cases of motor spirits, 22 of pontine, add 25 toils' of It is easily understood little hope of saving her.' •' Tha Hon was well known ton, and was usually coal trnde between Weatpdrt; Foxton, and New Plymouth.; owned by the Wellington ap4 Steam Packet Co. She - 'ha*', grief in her jubilee year, built in 1S!)4 bv B, Phillip ton, and Was of 185 toM^ TIIE ijfULK STiriSo far a» can be of the Moa is still to the sbftth of the' the whole day large were emitted together leaped mast high. Ther# v^ v^-,l fleeut spectacle about a terrific explosion took Iv amidships. This Wn* wonderfully brilliant . which lit up 'the sea ag£ around. This was,. grand flnnlo for the' die out shortly afterward*? jqjd: lutely disappear at ten b'dsi)(> '