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Show More Than Twenty Persons Per-sons Drown When Planks Collapse Buffalo, N Y , June 24. Five bodies bod-ies and a list of eighteen missing persons were brought heio today by the medical examiner from the scene of last night's disaster at Eagle Park, on the west shoro of Grand Island, Is-land, about 10 miles below Buffalo, when more than one hundrod persons wero thrown Into the Niagara river by the collapse of an excursion dock. Tho Identified dead are; MRS. ARTHUR MAYER MRS. JOHN HAYS MRS L1LLIE KELLOGG. CELIA OELLY, 9 years old MRS. AGNES S. GALLAGHER, In tho terror and confusion of the accldont families became separated and there Is faint hopo thut some of those listed as missing mny bo found today There seems llttlo doubt, how-evor, how-evor, that the list of dead will be at least 20 Georgo Richmoyer, who lo6t his wlfo and 10-j ear-old son, saw them carried clear of the wreck by tho cur-lcnfc cur-lcnfc that sweeps past the dock at the rale of ten miles an hour. Ho was clinging to a pile, holding his Infant son in his arms and could do nothing noth-ing to save the other members of his j family. George McKec, who lost his wife and infant son, saw them, go down in the mobs of strugr.ling people. Tho section of tho dock that gave was was about 150 feet in length and. 25 feel in width. The medical examiner ex-aminer who examined the wreckage r.t dawn found that many of the broken planks were rotten and Hint directly benenth tho collapsed portion of the structure there were no supporting piles Boats wero sent down the river from Eagle Park early today to recover recov-er the bodies. A mllo below the landing land-ing there is a reef running several hundred feet out Into the river, which with a shore swing of the curront, forms a natural basin and. Into this It is believed the bodies will bo carried. car-ried. Tho excursionists wero membeia nnd friends of Court Amhorst lodge No. 232, Foresters of America, who were on thoir annual outing. They wore taken to Eagle Park on board tho steamer Henry Koerbor and tho baigo Lottlo Koerbor. The boats wore warping into the dock to tako on passengers for the return trip when the crowd began to gather on tho dock |