THIRTY LIVES LOST WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES SHIP.
Vessel Was Carrying Dynamite For B.'asting Purposes In River.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received June 28, 10.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, June 27. Thirty lives were lost on Thursday, when lightning struck the drill ship J. B. King, which was carrying dynamite and was working in the Brockville Narrows of the St Lawrence River.
The dead were asleep below the waterline and their bodies are believed to be tangled in the wreckage of the hull.
One body has been recovered. There are twelve survivors, some of whom were picked up seriously injured.
It is not known whether there was any considerable quantity of dynamite aboard the J. B. King. It is believed that lightning struck the ship and ran along the drill rod into the reef, where dynamite had been set for blasting.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19108, 28 June 1930, Page 1
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