OTTERBURN DISASTER.
STOWAWAYS' FATAL ACT. MATCHES STRUCK IN HOLD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rocd. 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 25. The Marseilles correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that Giuseppe Pace, a Maltese, is the only one of at least a dozen stowawrys, who survived the fire and explosion aboard ' the steamer Otterburn. He admits that matches were struck in the afterhold, where the stowaways hid themselves. Apart from the stowaways seven members" of the crew perished.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18567, 27 November 1923, Page 7
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