Numerous craft of all' sizes and descriptions searched the turbulent seas off the New Jersey coast to-day for possible survivors. of the ill-fated passenger liner, Morro Castle, which was gutted by fire during the early hours of the morning.
'A total of 183 bodies have been recovered but 50 persons are still missing and unaccounted for. Little hope wae held for their lives. It was estimated that 233 were lost or Missing in the -disaster believed to have been caused by lightning.
Three hundred and twenty-five of aboard the vessel at have been ac-
Bodies were being washed ashore jon the Jersey Coast almost continus ously to-day, some of them charred Mysterious Explosion in
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