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Show ISIXTY PASSENGERS FALL HID WATER WOMAN AND CHILD MEET DEATK AT SEATTLE WHEN GANGPLANK GANG-PLANK GIVES WAY. Passenger Were Leaving Vessel When Accident Occurred, a Struggling Strug-gling Mats of Humanity Being Thrown Into the Water. Seattle, Wash. Two persons are known to have been drowned and forty nioro were Injured when the adjust-ablo adjust-ablo end of a temporary passenger gnngplank at the Colman duck dropped, drop-ped, precipitating sixty passengers Into thp water as they were preparing prepar-ing to board the sound steamer Flyer for Taeoma. The dead: Mrs. O. V. Learned. Seattle; Se-attle; Carl Ilruder, son of Mr. ati'.' Mrs. C. Hinder of Seattle. The child was dead when knocked into the water and Mrs. Learned died on ths pier. Most of the Injured were only slightly bruised or cut by striking i against piling or the hull of the Flyer when they fell Into the water, and a!! j will recover. The Flyer had Just discharged her passengers from Taeoma and was preparing pre-paring to load for the 11 o'clock return re-turn trip. The pier was crowded wlti: passengers who, in their engernesa t't get aboard, were pressing persons on the gangplank. A defective cog broke under Hi weight of the "crowding passengers and the shock of the inch drop was sufficient to strip the cogs and let the end of the plank fall, the screaming passengers rolling and sliding down the steep Incline Into tbe water between be-tween the wharf anil the Flyer. The water was (lotted with frantic persons struggling to reach the boats which were lowered from several nearby vessels. |
