OIL STEAMER EXPLODES.
FIVE KILLED, MAKY INJURED. BODIES FLOAT IH BURNING OIL XEW YORK. June 27. An oil tank steamer exploded to-day ir. N>w York Harbour and burst into Same?. The vessel is unapproachable owing to the intense heat. A great crowd is watching the spectarlp.
Five men were killed and a score were injured by the e.-cplosion. Several of the dead bodies wry found floating in the burning oil in the vessel's hold. '
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 154, 30 June 1913, Page 5
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74OIL STEAMER EXPLODES. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 154, 30 June 1913, Page 5
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