BUNKER FIRE
EIGHT MEN ARE GASSED (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, July 13. Alarm was caused at Williamstown early'this morning by a.fire in the coal bunkers of the steamer’Erica. Eight men, who were fighting the blaze, were gassed by carbon monoxide fumes set up by the'burning coal, but they were hauled up and responded to medical treatment. When Captain T. Christie and the ships carpenter, T. Curtis, went below to try! to cut through a wooden bulkhead to reach the seat of the'fire, they collapsed and to be dragged through the hatchway bv ropes. Other gas victims were two of the ship’s firemen, the chief engineer, third engineer and two brigade firemen, who also sustained burns. Explosions which have occurred were caused by the ignition of pockets of gas from the (burning coal. Tons of sea water were pumped into the bunkers, to which the blaze was confined. - ■ The ship’s sailing for Mauritius has been detaped.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1935, Page 5
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