Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1909 — ELEVEN BODIES RECOVERED [ARTICLE]

ELEVEN BODIES RECOVERED

Seven Victims of Wharf Collapse Were Girls In Their Teens. & Mandeville, La., June 8. —Eleven bodies have been recovered from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain at the scene of the disastrous collapse of a small pier upon which scores of excur sionists had crowded to board the steamer Margaret about to return to New Orleans. \ A revised list of the dead shows that all of the victims were residents of New Orleans. Seven were girls less than twenty years of age.