Show SIXTY passengers F ALL INTO WATER WOMAN AND CHILD MEET DEATH AT SEATTLE WHEN GANGPLANK GIVES WAY passengers were leaving vessel when accident oc occurred burred a struggling mass of humanity y being thrown into the water seattle wash two persons are known to have been drowned and forty more were injured when the adjust able end of a temporary temporal y passenger gangplank gang plank at the coman colman dock dropped precipitating sixty passengers into the water as aa they were ing to board tho the sound bound steamer flyer for tacoma the dead mrs p V LQ learned arned se attle carl bruder son of mr and mrs C bruder of se seattle afele the child was dead when knocked into tha water and mrs learned died on tho tha pier most alost of tho the injured were only slightly bruised or cut by striking against piling 0 or r the hull of the flyer when they tell fell into the water and all will recover the flyer had lust just discharged her passengers from tacoma and was pro pre paring to load tor far the 11 oclo cli return trip tho the pier was crowded with passengers who in their eagerness to get aboard were pressing persons on the gangplank A defective cog broke under the weight of the crowding passengers and the shock of the inch drop was sufficient lent to strip the cogs and let the end of the plank tall fall the screaming passengers rolling and sliding do down wa the steep incline into tta the water between the wharf and the flyer the water was dotted with frantic persons struggling to reach the boats which lowered from several nearby vessels |