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Show bark "Topsy" went ashore on Cayman beach. The captain, I wo mates, one seaman anil the cabin buy were lost. Seven of the crew were rescued. Patterson, X. J.. Jan. 8. The engineer engi-neer and lircmen injured in the Laeka-wana Laeka-wana wreck here Thursday night, died today. ACCIDENTS OF A DAY, I. He Sacrificed Through Carelessne.., Chance or Mayhaps Fate. Eaole Pars, Tex., Jan. 8 Word is received here of an accident at the So-cobo So-cobo mino, the property of the Pinoles Mining company, seven miles from Du- Tango, Mexico, last Monday. Fifteen j men entered the powder houso to se- , cure a supply of giant powder. Each j man had received his allowance, when j one of them, who had been preparing a stick for a cartridge, attempted to se- J cure the cap of a defective fuse by the nse of his teeth. The cap exploded, ! when the detonation let off the entire ' explosive contents of the powder house. V Twelve of the men were killed outright, j and the remaining threb cannot possi bly survive. Berlin, Jan. 3. A dispatch from i Borchun, Westphalia, announces that ) a disastrous explosion has taken place ' - in a coal pit at that place. The bodies ' of two men killed and nine injured V men have been recovered, but it is J feared that a number of other miners f perished. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 3. The British i |