FIRE ON THE FRANGESTAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 April 1924, Page 5

FIRE ON THE FRANGESTAN

A PASSENGER’S STORY

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Eeuter’s Telegrams.)

PORT SUDAN, April 4

Sir Derrick Watson was a passenger on the Frangestan. In a thrilling narrative told to Reuter’s he said that when the wireless woke him up he was alarmed, but he merely regarded it as a joke of retaliation on many he had played the previous day, but when he arose he found the passengers mustered on deck watching smoke rising from tin. .■vftimflJja/t&rMV 'Ej/dnjf itfijen: Be 'did; not think it was sei'ious, but later the smoke increased, and it became obvious that the fire was not under control. When the flames spread an aged pilgrim offered his small vessel of holy water, confident that it would quell the furnace. Meanwhile the Frangestan wirelessly communicated with 47 ships. When the Clan Maciver arrived the European passengers were the first to be transferred anrl then the pilgrims with their baggage. Night fell before the transfer had been completed, and smoke was then rising in dense clouds.