Show S sim alve WENT on ats prec bated into lake and eleven are known to have been drowned as result of ace dent mandev lie la B the collapse 0 a freight wharf heie i pon which abo it sixty five people had r dished early S inday evening to board the excursion steamer margaret on her leburn trip to new orleans eleven persons are known to be dead and a hresc ie party is searching for bodies of seven persons who are miss n all were residents of new or leans rhe margaret did not land at the wharf to which she was accas tomed to t e up instead she ran into a doci built especially for skiffs and small cratt this small wharf was pulled by the steamers ropes entirely away from the main pier and some twenty people went into the lake in abo t eight feet of water the cries and shrieks of those precipitated into the lake were heard all over this place and many men rushed to the wharf to join in the work of rescue the officers and chew of the margaret ed many by throwing them life preservers |