Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 3 | Extinguish Fire in Hold of Rochambeau

EXTINGUISH FIRE IN - I HOLD OF ROCHAMBEAU i French Line Steamer Is Now Proceeding Proceed-ing on Its Way to Bordeaux, Says Wireless. XKW YORK. Nov. 9. The fire in : he hold of the jiasrenyer steamship Kocbaniboau. which broke out alter the liner left hero lat .Saturday, had been extinguished and the steamship is now proceeding to Bordeaux. Ne.va tiiat the tire in the roservc coal bunker of the Kochambeau had been ex-tinguished ex-tinguished was received in a wireless mesace this morning from Captain Jnham. It read r 'Have succeeded in extinuisliing the fire and am proceeding to Bor-deaux. Bor-deaux. All well on board-' The bit: French liner carried 6:11 persons per-sons and a larjre carjzo of supplies. When the fire was discovered Captain .In ham headed toward Halifax. lie expressed the hope then that he would he able to conquer the fire. Companv officials here were unable to sav whether the fire was incendiary or developed bv spontaneous combustion. The Roebarnbeau carried no high explosives, ex-plosives, although there were 254 L cases of cartridges on board. The Kochambeau had 421 passengers, of whom forty wre Americans, and carried a crew of 2-i.