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Show ; PERISH AS VESSEL SINKS AFTER BLAST Passengers Awakened to Find Vessel in Flames; Explosion Follows Hl'KM'iS AIRKS. .Inn.' Z. (By The Associated Press.) Flghty pet sons are belie i il lo hae. perished in the sinking sink-ing 'Sunday of the steamer ill" Franca on the Parana river, near Poe-tadas. Poe-tadas. At that point the river forms the boundary between Argentina and Paraguay. The vessel carried HO .abln passengers. passen-gers. 70 second-class passengers and a general cargo One survivor said the Bleeping passengers pas-sengers wre awakened at l 40 a. m.. Sunday, by cries of alarm and rushed (Continued .n Page i wo, ) 80 PERISH AS VESSEL SINKS AFTER BLAST (Coutlnuod from Pac One on deck to find the vessel enveloped 1 in flames. A few seconds later there was a I heavy explosion whh h caused the boat Wo fill and sink rapidly nearly a mile 1 from the Paraguyan shore. Some of the inured survivors swam I ashore. An unconfirmed report said Ithat the only cabin passengers saved I were the members of a famiiyof North Americans and three others. |