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Show ITWIC SUA ON THE ATLAIHIG COAST Five Men Lost in Wreck of Barge Off Scituate, Mass. BOSTON, March 3. Five men were reported lost tonight in the wreck of a .barge off Scituate, at the northern entrance en-trance of this harbor. A blizzard was raging and two other barges, part of a tow of three, were reported drifting ashore. Another barge, coal-laden like the first, was anchored just beyond the edge of the breakers late tonight. One body was picked up on the beach. The life savers were "unable to learn the identity of the barges. It was believed they were bound from a coal port for Boston. The tug disappeared in the snow and darkness soon after the two barges drifted inshore. The third barge, which the life savers sav-ers thought formed part of the same tow, also went out of sight, but it was thought she may have weathered the storm, as there was no trace of' her along the beach. , |