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Show EIGHT DROWNED BY SINKING OF W BOAT Victims Were Asleep When the Disaster Occurred on Mississippi Mis-sissippi River. NEW OiTlEANS, La., April 25. Eight people were drowned and tevcu others on board had a thrilling escape wheu the low-boat Eagle of the Louisiana Louisi-ana Petroleum company went down parly today in the Mississippi river, about; forty miles south of New Orleans. Or-leans. The Dead. CAPTAIN GKOUGI3 .70VCK. SECOND KXGINEER CHARLES GOODBUD. FIREMAN CHARLES MARTIN. MATE RICHARD LEBLANC. Two negro deck hands. A negro chambermaid. A cabin boy. Tho boat began to dip and take water wa-ter and quickly went down, breaking in half as it sank. Unconscious of danger, 1 hose on deck found themselves precipitated into tho swift current. They succeeded " catching hojd of objects ob-jects washed from the boat and managed man-aged lo stay afloat, intil they attracted attention from shore. Those drowned wero asleep at tho time of the accident, |