AFIRE IN GALE
CARGO STEAMER’S DANGER OUTBREAK SUBDUED ADELAIDE, October 14. The British India steamer Janus, from Calcutta to Adelaide, arrived to-day. When 69 miles west of Neptune Island, off the western side of the entrance to Spencer Gulf, in a raging gale, fire broke out on the shelter deck. It was found that baleri of kapoe and corn sacks in No. 3 hatch were alight. After seven hours’ hard fighting the lire was subdued, but it was necessary to jettison many tons yf damaged cargo.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17165, 15 October 1926, Page 7
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