VESSEL VANISHES
NEW YIORK’S REGENT FATALITY
NEW YORK,'September 1-1
“T could- see. riothirig except a cloud of smoke. Then.-splinters rained-on me. •Presently three bodies'' fell on-the Wharf'‘beside me,”; ' Janies Turnier, who stood: high on a wharf when thei-ferry steamer Observation: blew up in 'E as; River, }fe>w-York," wag one of the feW .people who Were' looking at’ the boat at the moment. ’? Down the -East River was the scene of the burning of-the General Slocini with the loss of 1000 lives, in June, 1904.' . ‘-I ‘wag watching, he-r i&& <he backed 1 out,”' he said. “I heard* an r nlo'ion. It wa,g not loud; and I did if ( -feel* any particular' concussion, but -the-. Observation disappeared in a cloud- of Hames;' - . : "-
; '“No steamer remained .in sight. Instead, there was wreckage, and there were men. screaming and swimming bout. I looked' driwri and saw rr mor'o bodies aboard the deck'of th ste-tner. Gypsum.”
Twice in -her unlucky career the Oboervhtion h r d been sunk, and bad twicC caught fire.' ‘
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1932, Page 3
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169VESSEL VANISHES Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1932, Page 3
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