Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-20 | Page 2 | Aftermath of Spectacular Fire Which Swept Brooklyn Docks

I Aftermath of Spectacular Fire Which Swept Brooklyn pocks Docks d o x 1 r 7 A w r to t l t. t t f 1 I J A r 60 N N s sw 9 6 w p r w S. S 4 Yr p 9 Associated Press W DEATH TOLL IN HOLOCAUST NOW AT N NINE INE MAY MOUNT HIGHER AS RUINS COOL One ship and numerous small craft were destroyed by flames which left piers strewn with wreckage SABOTAGE HINT FADES IN BLAZE NEW YORK Aug 20 20 A 11 F A police launch took th the bodies of four longshoremen from the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn waterfront Tuesday raising to nine the known dead in the fine which Monday swept a Brooklyn pier and destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de the Cuba Mail Mall Line freighter freight freight- er Panuco and numerous small craft Discovery of the bodies revised the police recapitulation to Seven Seven Seven Sev Sev- en known dead 15 missing in including including in in- eluding four crewmen crewmen and 11 stevedores stevedores steve steve- dores and 31 still in Brooklyn hospitals hospitals hos- hos out of least at Three like bomb-like cylinders were discovered on the afterdeck of the ruined Panuco which gave rise to the sabotage theory But it was learned that more than similar similar similar simi simi- lar objects were in a compartment aboard the vessel After police had soaked the cylinders cylinders ders in oil they opened one and found that it contained a substance substance substance sub sub- stance resembling mercury The investigators later found more than duplicate cylinders aboard the vessel