STEAMER RAMMED
ACCIDENT DURING A FOG
SEVERAL PASSENGERS MISSING. By Electric Telegraph,-.-Copyright-Received July! 23, 8.55 a.m. NEW YORK, July 21. The passenger steamship Boston, bound from Boston to New York, was rammed amidships during a heavy fog off Point Judith by an oil tanker. Four passengers ai'e known to be dead. The remainder were taken off in life-boats, several of which, crowded with passengers, are missing.
The Boston, which is making water rapidly, is being towed to Newport. Several ships are standing by.—Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1075, 23 July 1924, Page 5
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