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Show NO MOHE BODIES FOUND. Several Fcnon Drowned and Injured by a llrldge Ureaklng. Halifax, N. S., July 12. Xo more bodies have been found at tho scene of last night's disaster la Dartmouth, nnd the search has been abandoned. It is believed no other bodies are to lie discovered. dis-covered. Howard Foster, taken out alive last . night, died today. His daughter is among the drowned. The inquest began this morulng. The disaster happened by reason of a chain attached to a ferryboat slipping out of plaee and allowing the front of tho bridge to sink aud precipitate the crowd, (KH) or 71)0 men, women, ami children, into the water. Theipeoplo were crowded there for the new ferry steamer Ajax, just arrived from New York, to dock. When the steamer got withiu two feet of the landing a number num-ber of persons jumped on board aud at that moment the accident occurred. A number of people were drowned ami injured. |