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A Terrible Accident

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Day
11
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 9. - As the huge steamer W. H. Wolf was being launched Saturday afternoon at Wolf & Davidson's ship-yard, amid the whistloof tugs, strains oí music and the cheers of 4,000 people, a stagiug on the docks of the Northwestern Fuel Company collapsed. About eighty spectators, who were clustered as tliick as bees upon it, were precipitated to the doek or into the river. The accident occurrod at the same instant that the mammoth vessel nnidj her plunge. As the steamer struck the water an immense wave was carried toward the platform across the river. Whether from lts momintum or through other causes the supports of the staging gave way, the waves splashed over it, and the people f ound themsel ves up to their necks in water, many being swept into the river by the receding waters and others being pitined under the broken 'and fallen timbers.; Those who were dumped into the river trantically clung to pieces of wood, while boats hurried to their rescue. Those who were on the docks lay in heaps, many injured so badly as to require assistance for their removaL It ts expected that of the thirty-three people injured thiriy will recover. The dead are: Eddie Zerbel, aged seventeen years; Charles Wal wiek, aged twenty-two years; Collin Finnister, aged twenty yuars.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register