CAPTAIN'S NEGLECT.
: o : Re-echo of a great Disaster,
NEW YORK, Janpary 26
Venschalk, captain of the excursion steamer General Slocum, burned on June 15th 1904, with great loss of life, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for not having fire drills aboard.
[The General Slocum was proceeding with one thousand children and nine hundred adults up the Eas!: River to Long Island Sound, when a fire, which originated in the kitchen broke out and spread^ .with frightful rapidity]
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Grey River Argus, 31 January 1906, Page 4
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