WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND SAVING OF LIFE.
Keceived March 17, 9.45 a.m. NEW YORK, March 16. Thanks to wireless telegraphy, six hundred passengers, including many women and children, were safely transferred from a burning steamer to another off City Island, in the vicinity of the 3cene of the General Slocum disaster.
The river steamer General Slocum was wrecked at Hell's Gate, the lives of a thousand persons being lost.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9042, 18 March 1908, Page 5
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68WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND SAVING OF LIFE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9042, 18 March 1908, Page 5
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