Show sun SUB EXPLOSION IS Inquire Into nto Blast Which Killed d Three SECOND SIMILAR DISASTER IN YEAR Nine Other Men Injured Six Seriously NEW LONDON Conn April 21 AP With AP-With AP With three seamen dead dead a and d nl nine others t e injured six six of or t them m se seriously seriously se- se rIou I a a naval pa b board ard of ot inquiry had 9 before C Jt H today od the task of determining de- de t the he cause cause of a tn I 1 yesterday esterday which shattered the batery battery battery bat- bat tery ery room of the submarine S 49 The blast took the lives lh's of Ralph Edward McCormack gunners gunner's mate second class of West Lynn Mass Olle Olley J J. Cook seaman second class ot of f Danville Va anc ant and Theodore Hoist Holst olst Jr chief boatswains boatswain's mate of Groton C Conn nn It It was was the second major disaster suffered by the submarine base here hereIn herein heren In n less than a year Last September Septem- Septem ber er the S 51 a sister ship of at the S 49 went down off Block island wIth three thirty-three officers and men after fter a collision with the steamer teamer City of Rome The blast on the 49 S came out ut warning just after th the seamen had ad finished a meal No o officers were vere aboard but within a few few- minutes min min- utes tes comrades of the sea their heads eads hooded with gas gasP masks entered entered en- en ered the wrecked andy and gas filled l room oom and carried the twelve victims of f the explosion to the open air TwentY TwentY- Twenty eight others others' of ot the crew Indifferent in indifferent different compartments suffered but slightly lightly from the concussion and the he gas gas gas' which seeped through the craft raft craft Dewey Dewey G. G. G Kile first class lass one cone of the s survivors Q o of the tat fated ill d S 51 Is now a member of ot th he the cr crew w of the 49 S and nd was was' in in inthe the torpedo torpedo room when the ac accident occurred r. r lIe He suffered slight effects effects ef- ef I from gas |