EXCURSION STEAMER CAPSIZES
A DEEADFUL TRAGEDY. ; ; peoria (Illinois), July G. ( i The excursion steamer Columbia, carrying 663 passengers and a crew of thirty, capsized in tho river. It is estimated I that between 75 to 100 peoplo perished. < In si denso Jog tho vcßsel struck a sunken log in the river, commenced to nink immediately, and then capsized. <*, She was a three-ticker boat, and the ex- ■ cursionists ivero dancing and singing j when tho accident occurred. A panio ensued, and many women and children ' were pushed ovorlxiard, and many jump- : ed over. Thera nas no time to use thn lifebelts or tho boats. The shrieks of tho survivors Tver 1 ) heard on 6hore, and ; rowboats were iiunched and went to th# , i rescue.—Aus.-N.'J. Cable Assn. ' . LATEST DEATH BOLL. '' j (Roc. .Inly !), 8 p.m.) j , Pcoria, ,My 8. I Approximately ono hundred and fifty : peoplo perished in- tho -wreck of th» Columbia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. -i j
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 250, 10 July 1918, Page 5
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