THE EXPLOSION ON A LAKE STEAMER.
(Per Press Association), Geneva, July 11, . The total number of persons killed by the boiler explosion on the steamer Mount Blanc waß 28, inoluding the captain. The steam filled the saloon, and caused a panic All egress was blocked and the cries of tho sufferers immersed in the scalding vapour were fearful. The machinery inspectors have reported that cracks existed in the Mount Blano's boilers for a month past. . Many of the passengers were severely scalded, and some of them implored the doctors to kill them, and so put an end to their agony. There were no Australian tourists on board the vessel.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4162, 13 July 1892, Page 2
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109THE EXPLOSION ON A LAKE STEAMER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4162, 13 July 1892, Page 2
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