Show BLAST KILLS 2 HURTS 35 French S h. h oner Sinks After Explosion Firemen Firemen Fire Fire- men Barely Escape Tan Jan 5 AP AF ro romen men men are dead three missing and thirty five injured d as a result of An n explosion In the pitch filled hol hold 1 of the French barque Richelieu that transformed thE th 1 dOl four m master four into a seething o. o Percy L Lewis 25 of Tampa Fla an and Thomas Daniels Baltimore died today of burns arid and inhaled sl smoke oke and flames All the officers and ten tim French cadets ca- ca ets aboard th In- In jury The six thIrty Injured were n hospit hospitals l here suffering suffering suffering-roni from serious seri seri- ous bUrns Thirty Thirty- Thirty One ne em are negroes Two of the he fiVe v e men burned burnel are members of th y crey while th the othet's aro dock l s. s The explosion occurred in f the vessels No 3 l hold old as slie shet lay fay alongside a Baltimore re Ohio lallIO railroad rail rail- IO road pier at Ba Bay loading warning and and few moments score of ork- ork men had left the hold for the day a billow V o of flame and smoke hot from the workers nearby The bla blaze e pread rapidly through the inflammable despite the efforts of tire ire fighters rag tor sIx when the sank Can CaptaIn aln JuteS Jues Cornea Cornec or of tilt the described the scene on dec immediately foll wing th the blast A terrible Pillar of flame and sm smOke ke c came me pouring from flom the i hatch of No 3 hold All hI about were men with their clothing ablaze and andas andas as J watched many of them leaped to the pier After Arter ordering all 1 workmen ashore Captain Cornec said he followed d them and helped tear the burning clothing from many of the VICtImS Two men were seen een h ly firemen h einen to 10 fan fall back into the hold as they struggled to escape through Continued d on page 8 IS I BLAST KILLS 2 HURTS 35 Continued from page 1 the fiery hatchway Many lany workers work work- ers rs were found unconscious their clothing In flames Firemen themselves barely escaped escaped es- es as the vessel sank Only the crackIng of the mainmast gave warning but all reached safety Ten French naval cadets assigned to the Richelieu for training were reported safe by the ships ship's captain cap cap- tain The Richelieu ot of tons was feet feet long with a twenty seven foot beam She arrived here from Nantes last week and was loading pItch for France The loss was estimated at |