A SERIOUS MISHAP.
SIXTY PEOPLE THROWN INTO THE WATER.
ONLY TWO DROWNED
(Received 21, 12.15 p.m.) New York’, May 20 The adjustable end of a gangw
at Colman Dock, Seattle, collipsh
, . Bjixty persons about to board n steamer - wore flung into tho water. Two were drowned, the others being rescued by boats from a near-by steamer. A young negro bootblack leapt in and rescued six persons. Life preservers from docks and steamer aided many to keep afloat* but a woman encumbered with a child sank.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 20, 21 May 1912, Page 6
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85A SERIOUS MISHAP. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 20, 21 May 1912, Page 6
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