FIRE AT SEA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 6 May 1914, Page 5

FIRE AT SEA.

CREW'S FATE A MYSTERY

BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT.

HALIFAX (N.S.), May 4. An unidentified steamer is reported by the steamer Zeidlitz to be on fire three hundred miles south of Cape Race. The Zeidlitz was unable to identify her. owing to thick smoke. No sign of life is discoverable.

Later

The Zeidlitz called other liners by wireless, the Sachem,, Branderburg, Olympia and Franconia responding. Not a trace of the ship's boats has been found, and the fate of the crew is a myster"