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Show MANY. DROWNED WHEN DOCK CRASHES DOWN Between Two and Three Hundred Per. sons Precipitated Into Water at Eagle Park, on Niagara River. Buffalo, N. Y. Between fifteen and twenty persons were drowned and a number injured Sunday night when a fifty-foot dock at Eagle park, Grand island. Niagara river, collapsed under the weight of 250 persons, precipitating precipitat-ing them into twelve feet of water. Up to midnight seven bodies had been recovered, of whom six were -identified. The excursionists were preparing to return to Buffalo after an outing at the park and between 350 and 400 persons were on the dock to take the steamer when the underpinning gave way. The outing was under the auspices aus-pices of the Court Amhert lodge I. O. 0. F. of Black Rock and was for the benefit of sick brothers. Roosevelt Severs Relations With Party Chicago. After 'making preliminary arrangements for the organization of a new party, Colonel Roosevelt on Saturday definitely severed his relations rela-tions withl the Republican national convention. In a statement setting forth his position in this regard, he said that since the convention had declined to remove the delegates who, he contends, are fraudulent, he could not recognize its authority. He urged his delegates to refrain from voting in the convention, but stated that in case they did vote he would not free them from the obligation to cast their ballots for him. 4 ' |