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Show I illlll NUMBER I OFSUSOil Tender Is Upset as They Are Rc-HI Rc-HI (uming From Shore to (lie HI New Hampshire. M By Associated Press. HB , NEW YORK. Ocl. 1. An unknown j ' number of sailors from trie battleship H .New Hampshire were drowned by tlio up- 1 setting of a tender In the North river EE 'off Ono Hundred and Fifty-second street , H tonight. Estimate?! of ihc dead vary fl from throe to as high as twelve;, but as Ul no official count has been made of the I 'number aboard the tender, and ns many I men have shore leave, it was Impossl-i Impossl-i I bio accurately to fix the list of missing J tonight. B The sailors wore returning to tho Now Hampshire after shore leave and more HBI than 100 of them. It in estlmntod, had Hj crowded aboard the lender, which was j Ibelnp towed to the battleship. About 300 yards off shore the craft cither H .swamped or was upset and (lie entire 'load of jRckles was precipitated into the ffl ' water. I Quick Eereno Work. I Boat wore Immediately put out from the New Hampshire and wherever a j bobbins; head showed a man was rescued. But in the darkness jeveml sank and others were almost unconscious when dragged to oafety. On board the New Hampshire all wet I clothes were countod. Indicating that inlxty-one were saved and leaving; blank the more serious gap of posslblo dead Au 250 men from the ship had shore Ieae I tonight there was no way of ascertaining: ascertain-ing: Just how many were aboard the ten-dor. ten-dor. Several sailors who were In the upset boat hesitated to estimate the number lost, although those inclined to tke a more serious view of tho affair placed the lost, as high as thirty. No Information could bo obtained inboard, the New Hampshire. The men who were rescued were huBtled below and the officers on deck said that an estl-I estl-I mate of the dead was out of the qucs-itlon qucs-itlon tonight. Midshipman Godfrey, duck chevalier, who had charge of the tender, was taken from the water unconscious and In In the shlp's hospital, tt Is said that he saved fifteen sailors before exhaustion overcame over-came him. Tho New Hampshire, with her sister ship, Is anchored In tho Hudson Hud-son off the upper part of the city, bavins: bav-ins: arrived at New York this week from i target practice off Hampton Roads. |