FATAL EXPLOSION.
SIX SAILORS KILLED. United Press Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received June 15, 11.35 a.m. SYDNEY, June 15. The underwriters have received a cable message announcing that ,an explosion in an oil-tank caused a fire on board the steamer Groningen at the port of Vanjong Prink, in Java. The fire was soon extinguished, but six of the crew lost their lives.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19090616.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3218, 16 June 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
62FATAL EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3218, 16 June 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in