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Fifty Persons Drowned

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
June
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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London, June 21. - During the launching of the new flrst-class battleshlp Albion, of 12,950 tons, at Blackwell, by the Duchess of York, a ceremony at whlch the United States ambassador, Colonel John Hay and Mrs. Hay and Lieutenant Colonel Well, the XJnited States attaché, assisted, the displacement of water caused an immense mass of water to rise on all sides, completely submerging one of the lower stages of the yard and immersing hundreds of people. It is estimated that fifty persons were drowned. As this dispatch is sent the bodies of twenty-seven men, women and children have been recovered from the scène of the disaster. The Duchess of Tork and Colonel Hay and Mrs. Hay and the remainder of the distinguished guests did not see the accident which occurred at the moment when three cheers were called for the sucesssful launching, and the cries and the screams of the victims were drowned by the outburst of hurrahs and the steamers' sirens.

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