EXCITING SCENES ON A LINER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 5

EXCITING SCENES ON A LINER.

TWENTY PERSONS INJURED BY AN EXPLOSION. MEN RUSH THE WOMEN'S BOATS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 3th April. When the Newcastle liner Caivnvona, bound to America with 900 Russians and Armenians aboard, was off Beac-hy Head (on the coast of Sussex) it was discovered that the coal bunkeis were on fire. An explosion blew a hatch to pieces, injuring twenty persons. A panic followed. Many men attempted to rush the women's boats, and in the struggle a woman's spine was broken. The British crew, however, using determined measures, prevented a disaster. The sail6rs knocked men down right and left. Four of the passengers jumped overboard, but were rescued. Finally all those on board were transferred to other steamers, which carried them to safety. Prince and Princess Louis of Batteuberg personally served food to the famished emigrants on theii: landing at the Dover pier. [The Cairnrona is a steel twin-screw ; four-masted vessel of 6025 tons gross, built in 1900 by C. S. Swan and Hunter, Ltd., Newcastle, and owned by the Cairn Line of Steamships, Ltd.] SEVENTY PERSONS INJURED. MANY SERIOUSLY. (Received April 9, 10 a.m.) LONDON, Bth April. Seventy persons were injured m the Cairnrcna explosion, many seriously. The emigrants are coming to London for transhipment. A MUTINY. SUPPRESSED~~BY MARINES. (Received April 9, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Bth April. Marines boarded the stenmer Kanawha (to which the Cairnrona's passengers had been transhipped), and suppressed a mutiny among those of the pir>sen£;eis who refused to rejoin the Cairnrona.