DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK
"it: STEAMER'S GANGPLANK mi.-:r .' COLLAPSES ■ TWENTY PEOPLE THROWN fo:.; r INTO THE WATER ■. ■ By Telegraph—Pr*«B Association—Copyright '■■■ ■ . (lice. May 24, 5.5 p.m.) ■ iim Yerfc, May 22. ■!"■ -Twenty persons were crossing a gang, planlt to board fho steamer Fmkvril; when tlio plank broke-, and tho men, women, and children wero iM't'cipit-atod into tho Hudson, ■ Two wore drowned and three arc missing. Tim others ai'o in tlio hospital. One- man, failing to rescue his friends and a child,' wont temporarily insane. The accident was duo to overcrowding. As the Inst whistle had'blown for tins slioro, tlio viiitsw liurrlerl offj and the belated stcerajje rushed nn board. The weight was too great. . Members of the crew dived into tho water and attempted rescues, but tho ti'.ie flarrk'd off tho bodies.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 5
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131DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 5
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