People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — DROWNED BY HUNDREDS. [ARTICLE]

DROWNED BY HUNDREDS.

Terrible Accident in a Roumanian Town —Report That 200 Were Killed. Bbahilov, Roumania, May I.—A terrible accident occurred here. While the pier was crowded with persons in holiday attire waiting for the steamer which was to convey them to Galatz, on the Danube, the pier gave way and threw hundreds of persons into the water. It is estimated that not less than 200 were drowned.