Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1948 — STEAMER EXPLODES [ARTICLE]

STEAMER EXPLODES

Shanghai, Dec. 30 Dispatches from Hankow reported today that more than 500 persons are missing and believed dead after a river steamer explosion in the Shang river, a tributary of the Yangtze, near Hankow.

The explosion on the heavily loaded boat caused a fire which swept from stem to stern catch-

ing passenger isleep in their cabins about 4 u n, Saturday the report said