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Show OVER A SCORE DROWNED. Two Hundred Kxcursionists Thrown Into the Water by tveaklng of Cane I'lauk. Biir Harbor, Me., Aug. 8. A score of persons were killed by the collapse of the gang plank of the Mount Deseret: ferry. Seventeen were drowned and three died from the terrible experience of immersion in the water and injuries while struggling for life. The Maine Central railroad had run an excursion to Bar Harbor. At Mount Deseret ferry, the terminus of the line, the train is left for the boat, for an eighteen-mile sail to Bar Harbor. From the wharf a slip or gang plank, forty feet long and ten feet wide ran out to the boat; the. slip was hinged at the inner end and was raised or lowered low-ered to suit the tide. When the excursion train from Bangor Ban-gor arrived at the ferry there was a rush for the steamer Sappho. The first few passengers had crossed the gang plank safely and it is estimated that 200 people were massed on the plank. The long timbers supporting the plank broke in the middle. The hinges held up one end and the chain the other, while the broken ends of the plank dropped and a struggling, screaming-mass screaming-mass of humanity was plunged into the water fifteen feet below the wharf. Many were taken from the water unconscious un-conscious and were revived with difficulty. |