EIGHT DROWNED WHEN TUG CAPSIZES
Eeceived Sundav, 8.5 p.m. SAN FEAXCISCO, May 31. Eight seamen were drowned today when the 36-ton tug, W. H. McFadded, en route from Beattie to New Orleans, sank off Dungeness Spit. Pour bruised bodies were found floating in an oil slick by a Coast Guard cutter and the search continues for the four missttjg nien and the remnants of the vessel. The countv coroner said the conditions of the bodies -indicated that they inet death from an explosion. Coast Guard officials think the topheavy tug might have been eaught in a rip tide and eapsized.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1947, Page 5
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100EIGHT DROWNED WHEN TUG CAPSIZES Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1947, Page 5
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