BLOWN TO PIECES.
EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER
CHIEF ENGINEER KILLED
[press association.]
WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. The steamer Anglo-Saxon, which lert tor London on Friday evening returned on Saturday morning. <=" When four hours out the evaporator exploded in the engine-room, blowing the clnei- engineer, Francis Lawrence to pieces. He was bending over it at the time, and received the full force or the explosion. Part of his head was blown away; one leg was broken, another mangled' and the body scalded and burned ali over.
The engines had been stopped through a fault in the steam-pipe leading to the steering-gear. Nono- of the witnesses were* able to account for the explosion, and a verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1910, Page 5
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118BLOWN TO PIECES. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1910, Page 5
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