EXPLOSION ON A PETROLEUM STEAMER.
TWENTY-TWO PEOPLE KILLED — — fi [UNITED PBE3S ASSOCIATION.] London, June 14. Lightning caused an explosion on a British petroleum steamer m the harbour of (?), and twenty persons are reported to be killed. Adjacent vessels were set on fire. [Through the mutilation o{ the message the locality of the acoident cannot be given.] Later. Twenty, two people were killed by the explosion on the oil Bteamer Petrolia. The accident waß caused by drunken sailors dropping lighted matches about,
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXVIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1892, Page 2
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81EXPLOSION ON A PETROLEUM STEAMER. Marlborough Express, Volume XXVIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1892, Page 2
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