EXPLOSION ON A SCHOONER.
Received Last Night, 10.33 p.m. COOKTOWN, February 19. Three hundred and forty cases of benzine on board the schooner Papuan, for transfer, to New Guinea, exploded, last night, with a terrific roar. The Papuan caught fire. The flames spread : rapidly, and by 4 o'clock this morning the Papuan was 7 burnt to the water's edge. It is believed the explosion was caused by a native going below with a lighted pipe. Martin, the steward, and three New Guinea boys were on board, at the time of the disaster. Martin succeeded in escaping to the wharf severely injured. One of the New Guinea boys was found under the wharf, where he had' been blown by the force of the explosion. The two other natives on the vessel were blown to pieces.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8363, 20 February 1907, Page 4
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134EXPLOSION ON A SCHOONER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8363, 20 February 1907, Page 4
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