WIRELESS AS LIFE SAVER.
Big Disaster Averted. 1 (Received 5.40 a.m.) ' NEW YORK. March 16. Thanks to wireless telegraphy 600 passengers, including many women and chil- , dren, were safely transferred from a I burning steamer to another off City Is- i , land, in the vicinity of the scene of the General Slocum disaster. j ", [The General Slocum caught fire while . t engaged in carrying some hundreds of j excursionists, mostly women and chil- „ dren, about three years ago. The struc- { tiire of the boat made it a death-trap, • and the upper deck collapsed, killing c large numbers of the hapless passengers. ( Many were drowned while trying to swim , ashore, and in all several hundred lives j, were lost.] j,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 66, 17 March 1908, Page 5
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