SURVIVOR'S STORY
SUBDEN STAMPEDE
FIRST; LIFEBOAT UPSET
United Press Association—-By 'Electrla ZeM<
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; : ■" "•; LONDON, June 21. A Stavanger message states that after a night of terror the Dresden survivors are resting in schools, barracks, and coastal. cottages. Three of the fifteen injured by the stampede are ia hospital. ■" ■•••■; • ■■■'"; ' ■ ■ ■ A- survivor, who-: declared that the passengers were ordered iiot to discuss the disaster, said that the inundation of three holds and. the boiler-room followed a sudden shock. ' The lights went out and a panic-stricken riisk for the lifeboats ensued.' The first lifeboat with twenty women capsized, and the second is also believed to have upset. The officers worked gallantly to restore order until' the rescue vessels arrived. ■ : "■ ' ■■• . The German- liner Stuttgart has left for Stavanger to pick up the stranded passengers. ''': :'■'■'."■' ; '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 146, 22 June 1934, Page 9
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