THE WEST INDIAN CONVULSIONS
Terrible Experiences on a Steamer. '
Men Flsjhtlnsj the Flames.
(Per Mail Steamer at Auckland). (Per United Press Association.) NEW YOBK, May 10. * Another and most thrilling account ■of the experience* pf a crew is- given by the captain of the Norton line steamer Etonea, which arrived here today from the Biver Plate, via St. Lu■cia, where > she 'called "'for bunker coal on May 10th. At St. Lucia on May 11, says Captain Cantell, £1 went on rcard the Rrituh steamer Boddam, whici< •had escaped from the terrible' volcanic eruption at Martinique three days before. The state of the ship was enough to show that those on board must have
undergone . ' AN AWFUL ; EXPERIENCE. The .Boddam was covered with » l^ars of fine bluish grey dust or ashes, of cement-like appearance. In some parts it lay two feet deep on the decks. This matter had fallen in a red-hot state all over the steamer, setting fire to everything- it struck that was burnable, and when it fell on the men on board it
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10668, 12 June 1902, Page 2
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175THE WEST INDIAN CONVULSIONS Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10668, 12 June 1902, Page 2
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