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Show I MANY 1 LIVES LIST I I American Steamship IV Collides With British Oil Laden Vessel. I THIRTY-SEVEN PERISH Burned to Death by Blazing Gas and Oils. AN ATLANTIC PORT. April 17 Thirty -seven Uvea were lost when tlic American steamship O. B. Jennings ;mil the British steamer War Knight hoth laden with naphtha and inflammable inflam-mable oils, collided off the British roast on March 24. according to mem-ben mem-ben of the crew of the O. B. Jennings who arrived hero today. All who perished per-ished with one exception, were on the British vessel. They were burned to death by blazing gas and oil. Those who survived the flames on the War Knight were rescued in the nick of time by destroyers for soon after while the blazing hull was being towed toward shallow water it struck) a mine and was blown up. The destroyers went to the rescue through a field of blazing oil and took off all of the crow of the Jennings A member of the crew of the American ship, however, were badly burned and had to be removed to hospitals after1 being landed. |