Show DROWNED IN INTHE THE HUDSON A Large Number of Lives Lost by the the Capsizing of Bar Barges es A New York dispatch says Twelve brick barges coming down the Hudson river were struck by a violent wind storm oft Croton point at 9 o'clock Friday and were capsized Twenty lives are aro reported I Ito to have bave been lost lost The bodies of ten have I been recovered at midnight The barges were In tow tw of the Cornell Cornel Towing Company's Com Corn pany's ship Townsend Townsend The storm came upon upon them just as they reached the point The Tho river is very wide very wide at this place and a high sea was running As the tow came camo around the point the waves were so heavy that they begun to wash over the steamers steamer's side To save her from foundering it was wa necessary to heave to with head bead to the tho sea The e moment mo me- mo ment the tow line lino lne was cas cast off oi the bar barges es began to drive into one another ana ann bound about in the tho seaway As they knocked together some had bad holes stove in i their sides and sank and some eau caught ht one against another and carried over by their heavy beavy deck loads the tho waves and the wind turned them bottom upwards All AU Al this happened in a very few minutes The crews of the barges each barge carried carried car car- ried ned ab out five men and boys who were down below playing cards or telling stories The Tho heavy beavy winds drove everyone from the deck No warning seems to have bave been given Aven Joy iby the tug boat people when they hove to The Tho first thing thinK the tho men in the tho knew their boats into each other and sinking Some had time to rush on deck and jump into the water Many must have havo been caught in inthe the thu lh cabins abins and carried On all al the barges th there thOs e were at least least fifty people Of these only thirty have havo come ashore The boats which capsized dropped their cargoes and kept afloat It I may be that some of the men unaccounted for climbed back and may yet be sa saved ved The men who swam ashore had a bard hard struggle for life in hi the tho cold water vater and high surf sur As soon as they had bad landed and told their story etory two tugs ware Vre dispatched from Haverstraw Hav- Hav after the barges |