Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-20 | Page 7 | Drill Boat Blast Toll is Increased

4 I DRILL BOAT BLAST TOLL TOIL IS INCREASED ALEXANDRIA BAY N. N Y July 20 The lP-The The toll of the explosion of the drill boat America in the St. St Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence river near here yesterday reached three e known dead four missing missing missing miss miss- ing and eight men in hospitals today with the death of Earl Russell 17 one of those previously numbered among the injured He died this morning from cerebral concussion Eight other men were injured when a ton and a half hall of dynamite planted on the rocky bottom of the St. St Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence river exploded under the hull of the foot boat A second explosion ex occurred within the boat Immediately immediately immediately Im im- im- im mediately afterward The valley for miles around was shaken Two bodies were brought from the wreckage of the sunken drill boat bont last night before the diver found it necessary to abandon his search