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Show BOY CAPSIZED BOAT. And In Company With Eighteen Fellow Workmen Is Drowned. Nineteen men nro dead ns a result of the capsizing of tho boat used by tho workmen at tho Spier Falls, about ton miles west of Glens Falls, N. Y., on tho Hudson river. 'luo men havo been using a boat to cross tho rlvor to their work. On Frl. day an Itnllan boy becamo frightened Saturday ho again becamo frightened, and lell overboard, but was rescued, seized ono of the tacklo ropes. Somo of the men started toward him and In. stantly tho boat careened and filled. Tho rlvor wns swollen by recont rains, and many of tho men could not swim. Tho boy and eighteen others wero drowned. |