TANKERS COLLIDE
OFF COAST OF FLORIDA AT LEAST 58 PERSONS KI LED. NUMBER BLOWN TO PIECES BY EXPLOSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, October 24. At least 58 persons were killed when two tankers collided and caught fire off the Florida coast. It is estimated that more than 30 of the men were blown to pieces by an explosion which occurred in one vessel. Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered. An empty tanker collided with a tanker carrying several thousand gallons of petrol. The empty vessel was towed to port and the other vessel on which a pile of bodies can be seen drifted for -20 miles before going ashore.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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109TANKERS COLLIDE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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