SURVIVORS ALMOST NAKED.
DISASTER AFFECTS THEIR BRAINS Most of the survivors stood on tho wharves where they landed almost naked. Tho temperature was 36 deg. Fahr. The majority arc in a state of collapse. Tho terrifying rapidity of tho disaster has apparently affected thoir brains, and they are unable to give a coherent account, except that when awakened by the shock scores jumped overboard into the perisbingly cold water.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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69SURVIVORS ALMOST NAKED. Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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