A GANGWAY GIVES WAY.
$ SIXTY FLUNG INTO THE WATER. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Seattle, May 20. The adjustable end of a gangway at the Colman Dock collapsed, and sixty persons, who were about to board a. steamer, were flung into the water. Two wero drowned; tlio others were rescued by boats from a near-by steamer. A young negro bootblack leaped in and rescued six persons. A rain of lifo-prosoTvers from the docks end steamers aided many to keen afloat, but a woman encumbered with a child sank. __
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1446, 22 May 1912, Page 7
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87A GANGWAY GIVES WAY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1446, 22 May 1912, Page 7
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