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THE RUGEN DISASTER.
TWENTY-ONE BODIES RECOVERED
B* CAHhB— PUKSH iSSCniI ATION—CO-PYRIGHi
(Received July 30, 1.30 p.m.) JiEitLlN, July 29. People at Rugen, whiio watering the battle Meet, made a rush towards an incoming steamer, and the landing stage and pier collapsed, 150 persons being precipitated into the water. A number of bluejackets and officers jumped in and rescued many. Twenty-one bodies have been recovered, and it is feared that others five submerged beneath the ruins of the pier.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIII, Issue XVIII, 30 July 1912, Page 7
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78THE RUGEN DISASTER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIII, Issue XVIII, 30 July 1912, Page 7
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