Scalded to Death.
Adelaide, Jane 17. A shocking accident osourrod aboard the s.s. Wendouree yesterday. Throe rnou named Sinclair, Pittsborough, and Curmichael, with several other boilermakers, were engaged repairing an unused boiler, they being inside the boiler. Mr Ford, the chief engineer of the steamer, was fixing a patent stopper on a leaky tube of another boiler when the tube burst. Ford was struck in thu face by the boiling water but escaped with the others, except the three men named, who were hemmed in without means of assistance till all the steam was exhausted. Sinclair was then found dead in the furnace, and Pittsborough and Carmichael on thn floor of tho stoke-hole alive. Pittsborougb died shortly after, bub tho latter will probably recover.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7658, 17 June 1896, Page 3
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124Scalded to Death. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7658, 17 June 1896, Page 3
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