A GALLANT ENGINEER.
Pi:iith, March 9. Extremely gallant conduct was shown by Mr Sample, second engineer of the steamer Federal, while the vessel was lying at anchor in Champion Bay.
Some boiler tubes burst, and the flow of boiling water resulting commenced to quench the fires,threatening grave consequences to the boilor and tho ship generally. _ Recognising the danger, the engineer saw that there was only one way of averting a terrible disaster, and at the risk of his life, resolvod to face the stream of scalding steam and arrest its escape. So that his clothing might not in i being removed afterwards, tear away the scalded flesh, he stripped the upper portion of his body naked, and facing the boiling 1 Huid,succeeded in stopping the escape. _ The brave fellow sustained terrible in juries, but there is a chance that those will not prove fatal,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4972, 11 March 1895, Page 2
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144A GALLANT ENGINEER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4972, 11 March 1895, Page 2
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