BURNED AT SEA
FATE OF THE CIGALE. EXPLOSIONS IN THE HOLD. LOSS OF LIFE INVOLVED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrig’nt. LONDON, December 8. (Received Dec. 9, at 9.45 p.m.) Telegrams from Port Louis (Mauritius) give thrilling details of the burning of the steamer Cigale. A fire broke out in the hold and explosions followed, blowing up several passengers and causing a panic in Avhich others jumped into the sea. Captain Berenger had hardly restored order and got the tire under control before the boilers exploded. Only one lifeboat was now intact, and when the order was given to abandon the ship the women and children were placed in the lifeboat which was rowed to St. Denis in the French Colony of Reunion. Seventeen other passengers and some of the crew jumped on to the Captain’s raft and were rescued later but 23 persons on another raft arc still missing.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
The Cigale (ex the New was an iron screw steamer of 310 tons. She av as built in 1886. Her principal dimensions were;—Length, 155 ft Sin; breadth, 22ft 6in; depth, lift.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19350, 10 December 1924, Page 7
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