Many Lives Lost When Ship Takes Fire
Received Wednesdav, 10.20 p.m. NEW YORK, April 19. Thirtv-one of the 59 passengers in the motorship Farahon, are now reported dead or missing. Some of them were taken by sliarks. The Assoeiated Press correspondent at Guavaquil quotes reports that the Farahon was overerowded and that the vessei lacked lifeboats or life preservers. [The Farahon was travelling from Lima (Peruj when an explosion occurred, starting a iire.]
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 April 1949, Page 5
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