EXPLOSION ON LINER
OFFICER’S STRUGGLE WITH MADDENED NEGROES. Of Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received May 14, 9.50 p.m.) NEW YORE, May 14. The old Dominion liner Jefferson has arrived. Passengers state that, when the explosion occurred, the first officer fought hack a score of maddened negro passengers who sought to throw themselves into the sea .
A woman passenger attended four survivors of the steam-filled compartment, saving their lives.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8733, 15 May 1914, Page 5
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