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Show DISPATCH FR03T HIGGINSON. Names of Next of Kin of the Dead Seamen. Washington, April 9. A long dispatch came to Acting Secretary Daning of the navy department tonight from Rear Admiral Ad-miral Higginson, commanding the North Atlantic squadron at Pensacola. A portion por-tion of it, presumably giving details of the accident to the twelve-inch gun, was in cipher and will not be deciphered until un-til tomorrow morning. The only intel-leglble intel-leglble portion of the dispatch was that giving seven names together with the next of kin of tlfree of them, which are supposed to' be the casualties resulting from the accident. The three names given and whose next of kin were telegraphed to the department, here, are supposed by Secretary Darling to be those who were killed by the accident. They are: F. L.. Berry, ordinary seaman; next of kin, Mrs. Hattie Wilson. Las Vegas, N. M. E. L. Pursell. landsman: next of kin, Mrs. Ellen Pursell, Washington. Walter Kiel, seaman; next of kin, A. Moore, St. Charles, Mo. The remaining four names of those wno were injured are: G. Rothschild, coppersmith; copper-smith; I. E. Tuesdale, landsman; Paul Gocht. quartermaster; F. Parrucker, gunner's gun-ner's mate of the third class. |