Show Drown When Russ Ship Sin Sinks s Holiday Crowd in Panic as Excursion Boat Crashes Crashes' Into Int Stone Pier Russia Aug 31 AP AP Estimates Estimates of ot the loss loss' of life In the sinking of ot the steamer t amer Bure- Bure continue to grow It is now reported more than OO of the passengers aboard were drowned In Inthe Inthe inthe the foundering of ot the craft oft off the exit of the ship canal on Sunday night This little Island fortress is plunged In deep sorrow as most of the victims of ot the disaster were residents They we were e mostly workmen workmen work worl- men and their families returning from a holiday hollday in Leningrad Scarcely a family on the island es escaped escaped escaped es- es a loss Up to noon toda today more than thirty bodies had been extricated from the sunken sunk n wreck ck which lies In thirty feet of water The excursion steamer leaving L Leningrad had just emerged from the ship canal in a thick fog when a German freighter loomed up out of oC the dark To avoid the collisIon collision collision col col- col- col the Russian ship was sas turned sharply from her course and then U crashed Into a stone pier ripping a great hole in her bel bow She sank sankin in less than fifteen minutes and in inthe inthe inthe the fog and the dark the work of rescue was was greatly hampered The rhe regular captain was vas not on board and the fir first t officer who was in charge saved himself but his wife wite and two children perished Th They y were in a locked cabin the tYe key ley to which the officer carried In his pocket Investigation shows that the had only one lifeboat and life belts for passengers When the vessel crashed into the pier sailors rushed below below- quieting the passengers with cries of There Is no no danger Most of the pas passengers engers had returned to their cabins when the water overwhelmed the doomed craft In Tn t. t tie the e wild panic that ensued after the crash man many terror-stricken terror passengers passengers passengers pas pas- clambered frantically up Continued on page 4 DROWN WHEN WHEN RUSS SHIP SINKS Continued from page 1 the slender masts of ot the steamer which collapsed under their weight A great mob rushed for the single boat that the German freighter sent to the rescue and it sank under under under un un- der the numbers that Jumped into it The government has appointed two commissions to Investigate the disaster and fix the responsibility Those found remiss will be promptly and nd severely punished One commission commission commission com com- mission has already reported that both oth captains were at fault in failIng failing fail- fail Ing ng to observe the signals and regulations reg- reg usually followed in the canal Divers are working steadily on the he submerged steam steamer r trying to rec recover re- re c over cover the bodies Hawsers have been een passed under the boat and only when she Is raised will the exact exact ex- ex act ct number of ot victims be known as s most of the unfortunates died In n their cabins |