RIVER TEAMER SINKS.
AMERICAN DISASTER.
- 100 PEOPLE DROWNED.
Router. NEW YORK. July 7. The excursion steamer Columbia, while descending the Illinois River near Peoria, 110 miles south-west of Chicago, was wrecked.
The vessel was crowded with holiday
makers at the time, and she sank so
rapidly that there was no. opportunity to x reach .the bank a/id disembark the pas- " sengers, . the majority of whom were left struggling in deep water. ~, .Some managed to reach the bank in " safety, but 100 .were drowned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16897, 9 July 1918, Page 6
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