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Show FREIGHT WHARF COLLAPSES PRECIPITATING SEVENTY IN THE' WATER - Ten Persons Are Known to Be Drowned, and Rescue Party J$ Searching for Seven Others Who Are Missing Steamer Runs Into Small Wharf, Pulling It Away from Main Pier, With Frightful Results t Mandeville, Ux, June 7. By Hho collapse of a freight wharf here, upon which about sixty five people had rushed early yesterday evening to bid the excursion steamer, Margaret, on her return trip to New Orleans, farewell, fare-well, ten persons arc known to be dead and a rescue party Is searching for the bodies of seven other persons who are missing. All were residents of New Orleans. The Margaret did not land at the wharf to Which she was accustomed to tie up. Instead, she ran into a dock, built especially for skiffs and small cralL This small wharf was pulled by the steamer's ropes entirely entire-ly away from the main pier, and some seventy people went into the lake in about eight feet of water. The cries I 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 crew of the Margaret Margar-et rescued many by throwing them life preservers. Tho bodies were all taken to New Orleans last night on the Margaret |