The Long Island Sound Tragedy.
CAPTAIN SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Van Schalk, captain of the excursion steamer General Slocum, which toot fire and was burned on Juno fiSth, 19()4 with great loss of life, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for not having bad fire drill aboaid. (The steamer was carrying a large number of German excursionists when some inflammable spirit in I lie store-room ignited ami, the fireexlinguishing appliances having been allowed to fall into disrepair, tbe fire sproed with paralysing rapidity ami hundreds, including many women and cbi'd-en, perished’ in the flames and by drowning.) ' _ ,
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Southland Times, Issue 19727, 30 January 1906, Page 2
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109The Long Island Sound Tragedy. Southland Times, Issue 19727, 30 January 1906, Page 2
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