THE CHICAGO HORROR
1 . OVERLOADED GANGWAYS. Br Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. July 29, 0. ; a.m.) Chicago, July 28. The testimony concerning the Eastland disaster, in which an excursion steamer turned turtle causing appalliiis loss of life, points to overloaded gangways as bc-ing the cause. The lower port-holes were not closed; warnings had been given that'certain necessary improvements had been neglected, and the law in other respects had been violated.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 6
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