TANKERS COLLIDE
FIFTY-EIGHT DEATHS
Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, Oct. 24.
At least 58 people were killed when two tankers collided and caught fire off the Florida coast. It is estimated that more than 30 men were blown to pieces by an explosion which occurred on one vessel. Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered.
An empty tanker collided with a tanfeer carrying several thousand gallons of petrol. The empty vessel was towed to port. The other vessel, on which a pile of bodies can be seen, drifted 20 miles before going ashore.
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Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 2
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92TANKERS COLLIDE Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 2
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