EXPLOSION ON A PETROLEUM STEAMER.
♦ TWENTY-TWO PEOPLE KILLED. fBPECIAL.] London, 14th Juno. Lightning caused an explosion on a British petroleum steamer in the harbour of (?), and 20 persons are reported to be killed. Ad- ■ jacent vessels were Bot on fire. ' [Through the mutilation of the message ; the locality of the accident cannot be given.] ; Later. ' Twenty-two people were killed by the oxplosion on tho oil steamer Petrolia. ' The accident was caused by drunken | sailors dropping lighted matohes about.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1892, Page 2
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78EXPLOSION ON A PETROLEUM STEAMER. Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1892, Page 2
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