MEN MISSING
EXPLOSION ON SHIP WHILE LOADING PITCH MANY DEATHS FEARED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.20 p.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. A message from Baltimore states that 28 dock workers and five members of the crew of the French barque Rieheleieu are missing, following an explosion to-night. The vessel was loading pitch at the Curtis Bay pier. It is feared that many workers are dead.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 January 1927, Page 9
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66MEN MISSING Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 January 1927, Page 9
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