LAUNCH OVERTURNS
HUDSON RIVER ACCIDENT HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, December 20. (Received December 21, at 10 a.m.) A GOft launch, while carrying employees of the New Jersey Bread Factory to work tWs morning, capsized amid the ice floes on the Hudson River, and a number of persons were drowned. Twenty-five were rescued and taken to hospital suffering from their immersion in the icy water. By noon fourteen bodies had been recovered. TWENTY-SEVEN DEATHS, NEW YORK, December 20. (Received December 21, at 12.45 p.m.) The police announce the recovery of more bodies, bringing the total deaths to twenty-seven. About half of those on board the craft were negroes.
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Evening Star, Issue 19437, 21 December 1926, Page 5
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