THE SEA TRAGEDY
FAIRFAX-TANKER COLLISION. DEATH-ROLL TOTALS 46. [United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) New York. June 11. The total of the dead following the collision between the Fairfax and an oil tanker is now 46. Many injured have been received in hospital, with others uninjured but hysterical and suffering from severe shock. An investigation of the cause ol tho tragedy will begin to-morrow. Charges of cowardice and lack oi discipline on the part of the Fairfax crew will bo discussed before the United States steamboat inspectors. Flaming oil continues greatly to endanger shipping, doubled with continuing dense fogs. The strange sight of the flaming sea is visible over a wide area in the neighbourhood of the scene of the tragedy Oil rising to the surface from the sunken tanker continues to burn and flames from five to thirty feet high are rising from the waves twentyfour hours after the wreck. It is reported that the vessels lost in fog, were trying to find a light buoy from which they could take bearings, each moving in an opposite direction, and ironically found the same goal at the same time, upon which the disaster occuired.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 149, 13 June 1930, Page 5
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