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Show SHIPS IIUIITFOR VilSGlIB 3 Known Dead, 13 Missing In Santa Monica Fishing Tragedy SANTA MONICA, Cl, May 11 (Associated Preea) Three persons wars known to be deed, thirteen were sff leially listed se missing and many mars wars recovering from chock and expaeurs today o a result af the. foundering off Senta Monica Isto ysstordsy sf the fiahing boat Amoso. Meanwhile coast guard boats aearehed the wind-lashed wooers wo-oers for mars bodies whioh may be eavght la aesumulatiena af eeaweed. The Ameco suddenly listed In the gale-whipped billow wben many of Its alxty or mors paaaengera are believed be-lieved to have rushed to the lee eide of tha craft to avoid a heavy spray-Tha spray-Tha boat carried a heavy crowd to the deep see, fishing smack ranged along the coast. FIfty-tws persons had been accounted ac-counted for late today. Including the three dead and the alxteen miaaing. Tha remainder of tha fifty-two. were recovering- from the experience or were picked ap unhurt -by other . (Continued on page SHIPS HUNT FOR VICTIMS' BODIES (Continued from pag 1.). fishing boats that cam to th rescue, Th known dead: John V. Jxckl)fird, barber's ap prentice.- Pasadena; Mis Margaret Keller, l. -riant. Monica, and C. C. Burnett, barber, Loa Angeles. Th Amcco was 4.H foet long. It capsized when It heeded for shore in a squall, according to i'aptaln William Wil-liam Lightfoot, th skipper, on of the survivors. . X. A. Iw. proprietor of a beach drug stort presumshly waa the first on land to s th mishap. H was looking through a. telescope at the era when he aaw th Amoco pitch It passenger Into th water. He telephone Santa Monica and Venice polio and IK guard stations and shor boats put out at full speed to aid the stricken vessel. The Amece sank In sventy-fiv feet of water. Federal officials, nolle and tha county coroner began a tripl Investigation In-vestigation thia morning. One report re-port being investigated was that ther wer not enough lif preservers. preserv-ers. Another aaid th boat waa overloaded. |