FIRE ON A NEWCASTLE LINER.
* A DISASTER PREVENTED. FOREIGNERS RUSH THE BOATS. KNOCKED RIGHT AND LEFT BY BRITISH CREw. Received April 8, J. 0.45 p.m. LONuON, April 8. The Newcastle . liner Cavinront was bound for America with nine hundred Russians and Armenians aboard, when it was discovered that the coal bunkers were afire, off Beachy Head. An explosion blew the hatch to pieces, injuring twenty persons. A panic followed, and many men attempted to rush the women's boat, and broke one woman's spine, but the British crew, using determined measures, prevented a disaster, and knocked the men down right and left. Four jumped overboard, but were rescued. Finally all the emigrants were transferred to other steamers. The Prince and Princess Loms of Battenberg, personally served food to the famished emigrants landing at Dover Pier.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10014, 9 April 1910, Page 5
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134FIRE ON A NEWCASTLE LINER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10014, 9 April 1910, Page 5
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