CROWD THROWN INTO SEA.
OVER TWENTY DROWNED. Hv r lV!c'-|-:i|ili. I've: - A "'uri ;i 1 Inn. I' "jyrk'.M .Hcrlin, Monday. While a crowd numbering 1000 persons was watching a review of the German battleship (b.'et at Uncgen, a Prussian port on the Ilaltic, today, a serious disaster occurred. 'J'hu crowd had jratlicred .iti a pier, at:d a boat approaching to pick ]t ssengers for a doner inspection of the (1 'it, a rush to get aboard followed. Tho pier wan unablo to stand tho sudden strain, and it partially collapsed, while tho haluslra.iisg also snapped off.
This precipitated about 150 into the water, where [iumo wcio submerged in the ruins of the pim l and the landing stage. A number of bluejackets an 1 their officers jumped into the water to rescue the struggling macs of people, and they succeeded in savin:: a great many of them. Twenty-one bodien have !,, en recovered so far, but it is feared that others'remain under the ruins.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 487, 31 July 1912, Page 5
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163CROWD THROWN INTO SEA. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 487, 31 July 1912, Page 5
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