Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-10-25 | Page 5 | Smouldering Tanker Yields Sailors' Bodies

I Tanker Yields Sailors Sailors' Sailors Sailors' Bodies PALM BEACH Fla Oct 25 1 UP Bodies Bodles of several of the 88 persons who lost their lives in the collision of two out blacked-out tankers tankers tankers tank tank- ers off the Florida coast last Wednesday were removed Monday by the the coast guard from one of the ships They were recovered from the still hull of the northbound northbound northbound north north- bound tanker which was laden I with aviation gasoline that exploded exploded ex ex- I ex-I and spread over both ships when It collided with an empty I southbound tanker Monday was the first time tune the flames had sub aub- sided sufficiently to permit rescuers rescuers res res- cuers to bo board rd the northbound tanker to remove its dead The southbound tanker has been floated and towed to port It had 28 bodies on board