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Show . CIIArTER OF ACCIDENTS. Twenty Popple Drowned. J New York, Dec. 5. A Haverstraw dispatch dis-patch says: Twelve barges loiued with brick, towed by the Cornell Towing company's com-pany's steamboat Townsend, coming down the Hudson, when opposite Croton Point, .vere upset shout l o'clock last evening and about twenty persons drowned. Wheu at Croton Point the swash of the river was so great that the tug was compel'ed to round to, thus forcing the barges to ride i a.-h oiher. Being loadej, and the tide washing high, they immediately upset.. Thcre were sixtv men on the twelve barges, and only about thirty have come to shore. The accident is attributed by nany to the carelessness of the pilot of the tug. W. C. Curran, a boatman on the barge Louise, has just arr'ved from his swim ashore. He says: ' We were playing the concertina in the cabin at the time of tl e leeident. I ran on deck only to see one scow run on top of another. The boats did n:.t sink, but toppled over." Upon each barge were live m n, making sixty in ail. Of these only about thirty came ashore. Nothing definite yet is knonn as to the tuiiiibcr of lives lost by the liu"ge disaster in i t ml. nil last night. It is know n that thirty persons were saved, but in two stories agree s to the number of people on barges ::t the t me they capsized. It is believed that at east thirty lives were iost. A dispatch from H:ivertraw at noon states that only two lives were lost by the. disaster last flight. All on board the barges are accounted ac-counted for. The dead are Nicholas Nagcl and Frank Murray. ( rushed I'nder a ralliiijj Wall. St. J'aui., Dee. 5. Eight instantly killed, three fatally injured and four severely cut and bruised, is the record which can "to a large extent be credited to the blizzard's advent ad-vent in this city yesterday. A wall, already weakened by having its supports burned away, became top-heavy when the sttr port-ng port-ng debris was removed from against it. and went over with a cra-h before the gale with the result stated. Q l'lf .een men were working close to the center wail in the burned-out Shepard building build-ing on East Third street, when tlic wall , without warning, crashed down on them' burying them beneath the ruins and killing or stunning all. Not one escaped and all were so horribly mashed a:;d mangled, that it was with much difficulty that they were identified. The list of killed is as follows: Edward Wilcox, the contractor; John Adamski, Charles Katritski, Joeu Kalfaski, Frank Sewel, Charles Klies, Frank . Marks, Peter Larso. The fatally injured are: Frank Tcshler, Henry Murphy, John Maurer. The injured are: Frank Si peter. Thomas Morter, Mike McNamara, Stephen Rhode. Four Trains in a Heap. Providence, R. I., Dec. 5. Four trains, two freights and two passengers, were piled up at East Thompson, Conn., yesterday. Three persons were killed and several seriously seri-ously injured. An Explosion of Fire Damp. City of Mexico, Dec. 5. A terrible explosion ex-plosion of fire damp occurred yesterday in a mine in Sombreros in the state of Zucatecas. Five miners were killed. A Fatal Boiler Explosion. Hornf.rsvii.le, Mo., Dec. f. By a boiler explosion at Pope fc Pulley's mill near this place three men were instantly killed and the building demolished. , . . |