MORRO CASTLE DISASTER.
ACTING CAPTAIN SUSPECTS INCENDIARISM. ATTEMPT MADE ON PREVIOUS VOYAGE.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn. — ‘Copyright). (Received Ths Day, 10.5 a.m) NEW YORK, September 10. Acting-Captain W. F. Warms, of the Morro Castle, told the United States Government inquiry to-day that he suspected the blaze, was started by an incendiarist, basing his belief on the fact that an incendiary attempt was made on the boat on its previous voyage. The company’s formal report on that fire, produced at the hearing, agreed with the details of Captain Warms story that he had found charred T a P ei ' in the cargo. He said that lightning did not hit the ship. The first word of the fife he had was at 2.45 a.m. when the deck watch informed him. “I sounded the .general alarm a few minutes before three o’clock,’’ he continued.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1934, Page 5
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