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21 Entombed In Charred Tanker
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1956. University Daily Kansan
LAKE CHARLES, La.—(U.P.) The charmed kull of an oil tank which exploded at refinery docks last night yielded three living and two dead today, but remained the possible tomb of 21 other crewmen.
State police said firemen who crept through sheets of blazing oil to reach the tanker's severed stern found dismembered arms and legs of other victims.
But three men with heat-seared faces crawled feebly from the hatches of the Cities Service tanker which had been engulfed by flames that authorities at first feared no one could survive.
of 49 crewmen of the tanker Salem Maritime had been accounted for and an inspector was missing but expressed hope that others would be found alive.
Sheriff A, H. Reid, Jr., said only 26
The tanker exploded just after it had taken on a cargo late last night with a blast that shattered windows in Lake Charles. Flames spread to three barges tied up forward of the tanker and they also exploded.
men were found to have been safe ashore.
The tanker broke in segments under the searing heat after it was towed into the Calcasien River harbor away from the sprawling refinery.
The missing list at one time stood as high as 32 but a number of crew-
Four men were hurled into the river by the force of the explosion before 150,000 gallons of gasoline and other fuel went up in flames. They were injured and two were hospitalized.
The United States Navy has announced the commissioning of Ensign William J. Gibbs III. Ensign Gibbs, a '55 graduate in business administration was one of 685 men to be graduated from the U. S. Navy Officer Candidate School.
Graduate Is New Ensign
Appointed To Geological Post
Floyd Preston, assistant professor of petroleum engineering at the University and member of the petroleum engineering division of th State Geological Survey, has been appointed director of the Kansas section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
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