BOATING TRAGEDY.
A LAUNCH CAPSIZES. TWENTY-SEVEN LIVES LOST. ACCIDENT AT NEW YORK. By Telegraph—Press Asiwcialion—Copyright. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. Dec. $9. Twenty-seven lives were' lost in a boating tragedy in the Hudson River this morning. A 60ft. launch carrying a large runnier of employees of the New Jersey bread factory to work capsiaed among" kc tjocs in the river. Twenty-five were rescued and taken to hospital suffering from the effects of titeir immersion. Many nodies have been recovered. About half of the occupants of the launch wero negroes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19517, 22 December 1926, Page 13
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89BOATING TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19517, 22 December 1926, Page 13
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