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Show AMERICAN LINER TURNSJORTLE Accident Occurs After Leaving Leav-ing Dry Dock Between 500 and 600 Workmen Aboard. AN ATLANTIC PORT, April 23. The American line steamship St. Paul 1 overturned while being warped around her pier here todav after coming from a nearby dry dock. It is believed that all persons on board, between 50o and , 6o0 workmen, escaped, but the vessel .lies two-thirds submerged with her i bow on the bottom and her stern hizh in the air and the military authorities were unwilling to announce that no one perished. It was considered possible pos-sible that some of the men might have bi en i iu?ht in the interior of the ship and drowned. Whether the St. Paul's seacocks I were left open or the ballast shift' ! remains to be determined. . Soldiers were placed on guard n I and around the pier immediately after I i lie accident happened and inform. Lion was difficult to obtain. It was i learned that the ship had been brought alongside the pier. She li.-i- ed suddenly to port. Masts and funnels came In contact with the roof of the pier shod, this apparently preventing her from turninc oer entirely While the wrkinen on board were jumping into the water or climbing to I the pier other laborers hurried r the roof and endeavored to make fast tho masts and tunnels. These snapped one I at a time, however, and the bow of the pesscl settled on the bottom leavine 1 only about 150 to 200 feet of the after-i after-i part above water. |