SENSATION AT SAMOA
SURVEY YACHT BURNED SEVERAL LIVES LOST (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Dec. 2, a.m.) Suva, Doc. 2. The American scientific, survey yacht. Carnegie, at Apia, was burned to the wafer's edge, when only the cash and records on board being safleet. Tlie ship’s articles and everything else were lost. Under contract with (he< Vacuum Oil Co. Tor 2000 gallons of benzine', the tanks on board were being filled a'l Friday morning and work ivas resumed in the afternoon.
A hose connected the petrol supply wi(h tho tanks. Suddenly thei’e avas a terrific explosion. Five of (ho crow employed on Hie .job Avere injured, one being bloAvn into the sea.
Captain Ault, avlio bad been sitting reading in a deck chair 20 feej away was plso blown in jo (be sea and died Avliile proceeding (o hospital. The. galley boy, Ivolar, who was below in (lie after galley is missitw and it is believed, that life was, burned to death. ,
The chief engineer, (he mechanic and three seamen were injured, (ho engineer and the, mechanic having seriously burned arms and face..
No one lad' been soon smoking on (lie job. At the inquest (his morning on Captain Ault a. verdict AVns declared (haj Tien(h had been due (o .shook.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2377, 2 December 1929, Page 8
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