PETROL FUMES.
Five Killed in Boat's Cabin. UNUSUAL MISHAP (Received 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN, February 21. Five were killed and seven sent to hospital by a most unusual form of gas poisoning. Thirteen passengers, returning from Bieberieh, on the Rhine in a motor boat, all being in the cabin, when the boat passed a pate hof shallow water which jammed the exhaust pipe. The petrol fumes spread very rapidly into the cabin where all the windows were shut. One man saved his life by smashing a window.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 9
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