STEAMER ABLAZE.
WITH 500 PASSENGERS ON BOARD.
NUMBERS KILLED AjnD BURNED,
Received Jane 27, 11.5 p.m. NEW YORK, June 27. The Mississippi River passenger boat was Lur.it to the water's edge. There were £O3 passengers aboard, and these were saved by the captain going lull steam ahead and bsachi-g the vessel, despite the fact that the flames were breaking through the lower work?. The crew restrained the excited excursionists, thus permitting of orderly disembaikation. Four wer« killed, however, and dozens burned. Tne passengers declare that some of the women became frenzied, and : threw their children into mid-stream j and then jumped after them. The i fate of these passengers is unknown.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10080, 28 June 1910, Page 5
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111STEAMER ABLAZE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10080, 28 June 1910, Page 5
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