RUEGEN TRAGEDY.
NAVAL MEN RESCUE MANY PEOPLE.
BERLIN, July 29. The accident at Ruegen, by which a number of holiday makers were thrown into the sea and drowned, ocourod while the people wore watching the Gorman battle licet. They made a mad rush towards an incoming steamer, and tho landing stage collapsed, with a portion of tho pier, and 150 people wero precipitated into the sea. A number of bluejackets and officers jumped into tho water and rescued many of tho struggling people. Twen-ty-one bodies have been recovered. It is feared that others are submerged in the ruins.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 7
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98RUEGEN TRAGEDY. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 7
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