BOILER EXPLODES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 7

BOILER EXPLODES.

Unusual Tragedy on Barque

At Belfast.

TWO KILLED, OTHERS HURT.

LONDON, June 13

Two Finnish sailors named Mustonen and Hellstrom were killed when a donkey-engine boiler on board the barque Herzogin Cecilie, discharging at Belfast, exploded.

The boiler was blown through the main deck 300 feet into the air and fell on the quay, where it struck and injured the second mate of the barque, Mr. Londholm.

The galley was shattered and the ship's cook, Laine, was injured. A dock worker named Croghan, who raced to shelter across the deck, was struck down bv • the iron and wood.

Captain Erikson, whose birthday it was, had just left the boiler house for his cabin when he heard the explosion. He dashed out and saw the boiler in the air. Many other persons narrowly escaped injury.

BALLOON GONDOLA.

GIFT TO BRITISH MUSEUM. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, June 13. Professor Piccard, whose ascents into the stratosphere have made history, was present at the South Kensington Museum when the gondola in which he and M. Max Cosyns reached a height or 10* miles in 1932 was presented to the museum in the presence of the Belgian Ambassador.