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Show I ! TWELVE ARE DROWNED, i Show Boat Capsizes and Passenger I Were Unable to Reach Shore. Holcna, Ark. Twolvo persons woro1 drowned, ono n wonnin, when tho Miow boat Marlon capsized eight miles nbovo tho mouth of tho St. Francis Mver Into Sunday. Captain W. A. loyco of Nownrd, Ark., who was In' charge, returned to Helena, bringing ' ; tho Information. Tho Marlon, a slxty-fivo-ton boat, left Helena Sunday afternoon, cnrry- i lng members of n carnival company' thnt had been ploying horo. About ! 3:30 the boat Btruck and capsized. ! Tho 02 passongors and mombers of tho ( , brewcllmbed on top of tho overturned , , boat and tho engineer and n negro pot out for shore In n skiff. Wavos ' capsized tho skiff and both wero Vlrowned. Ten-foot high waves swept tho over- i Iturned Btenmor and several wero thus wnBhed from their hold, drowning bo-ore bo-ore tho eyes of their helpless com-' com-' panlons. |