INFERNO OF ICE AND FLAME.
CREW REACH SHORE AFTER FOUR HOURS’ TRAMP. HANDS AND FEET FROZEN. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Times Cable.) , (Received This Day, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 18. The Times correspondent states the •crew suffered extreme temperatures when, jammed in the ice near Demesnes, the German steamer Leandra, en route to Riga from Bremen with benzine and kerosene, was on fire. The flames towered 300 feet, defying the approach of ice-breakers which responded to the SOS N call. The crew of 18, after the fourth explosion, abandoned the ship and trudged barefoot for four hours across the ice, reaching the shore with frozen jhands and feet.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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