SHIP BLOWN UP
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE. J THIRTY DEAD. (United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 28, 9.50 a.m.) Ottawa. June 26. A message from Brookville, Ontario, states that 25 to 30 lives are believed to have been lost on Thursday afternoon when lightning struck tho drill boat J. B. King, carrying dynamite for working in the Brookville narrows of the St. Lawrence river. Many of tho crew were asleep in their bunks. Tho boat was blown to kindling wood. A number of survivors picked up were not seriously injured. A search is proceeding for bodies. A later message states that the death list for Thursday’s explosion of dynamite on the drill scow J. B. King, when it was struck by lightning, stood at 30 on Friday. The men who are dead were asleep below the waterline. Their bodies are believed to be tangled in the wreckage. There are 12 survivors. It is not known whether there was any considerable quantity of dynamite aboard the J. B. King. It is believed that lightning struck tthe ship and ran along the drill-rod into tho reef where the dynamite had been sot for blastings.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 5
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