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Show RECORD OF DEATH BY ACCIDENT. Many Persons Drowned In tho Danube A Coal Pit K.x plosion. Pesth, Jan. 5. AVhilo an enormous crowd was skating on the river Dannbe iu Hilda Pesth, the ice gave way and a number of people were thrown iuto the water and drowned under the ice. The extent of the calamity is not known but many persons are reported missing miss-ing and believed to have been drowned. London, Jan. 5. A dispatch to the Times from Vienna states that fifty persons were killed outright by an explosion ex-plosion in the Trinity coal pit iu Polish Ostran Saturday last. London, Ont.. Jan, 5. AVilliam AVeld a prominent agricultural journalist and proprietor of the Farmer's Advocate, accidentally fell into a water tank and was drowned. |