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Show THREE SKATERS LOS'E . TiiEiii lives in po;;d Twenty or Hore Precipitated ( Into VTater Near t'ne "Washington . Ilonmncnt. J ' W'ASHIXGTON, Jan. , 13. While a lare crowd was Skating on the bathing basin near the Washington monument last eveninir the Ice suddenly cave way and j reclmtated twenty or more persons In tre water. Three persons 'are known to have lost their lives, and it is possible other deaths may have been caused ly the breaking of the ice. !iss Jessie C. Thomas, a voting woman f u years, employed -as a clerk in the bureau bu-reau of ethnology, died at the Emergency . horital. i Lirht other persons were treated at the' Iergency hospital and' recovered. - ' . , The two dead men were identified 'as Arthur Wass?rbach, an employee of the hureau of enpraving and printing, and Henry C. Hamlil. a clerk tn the War department de-partment i .. Officer-Earnlnpan of the metropolitan police. Jumped ln-to a boat near at hand and unaided rescued feven persons. The police are satisfied that all those who were In the accident Tiave been accounted Xor. .... ' |