Show LAUNCH EXPLODES SEVEN ARE KILLED Memphis Tenn May lay 20 Seven Sc Seven perSons persons persons per per- sons wore drown drowned anti and nine nino others narrowly escaped death when n tho the gasoline gaso saso- line hue tank exploded In the launch Columbia Co Columbia lumbia nine miles south of or Clarendon Ark Clarendon earl early in tho timo The bo boat t left evening bearing a merry amerry p party who whO had planned to go so several miles down clown the river When hen about five miles below Clarendon the tank of- of ortho the Iho launch ex exploded ox- ox plo e wrecking the tho bo boat t lull and hurling tho the occupants into 1010 the river which at this point moro more than fifty feet from rom the shore Is very deep Somo Some were stunned by the force Coree of or the time explosion Bud and went down before swimmers in party could make an attempt at res res- cue Tho The survivors ivors were found on the thc river bank by runners dispatched from here hero None of nr the tho bodies have havo boon beon re covered co |