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Show mrJfi "4 mfr a OTTAiyirB A hkma Heroic Act of Two Men Who Went Down to Death Kcw York, June 7. Some details of tho wreck of the steamer Tabagoa, off the coast of Panama a fortnight ago, huve just reached this city. More than a score of the passengers and crew lost their lives. Eighty wero saved. The captain, an Englishman named Campbell, who was the last man to leave the ship, and tho pilot, Matthews, Mat-thews, are under arrest In Panama City. According to statements, there were but three llfc-presorvers on the craft. As the boat was sinking, the second engineer and a Cuban manufacturer named Gregolre, though unable to swim, stated that they would not crowd the heavy-taxed lifeboats. When there was not a woman or child loft on tho ship -and not another human hu-man being could bo carried In the lifeboats, life-boats, they calmly lighted cigarettes and smoke! until the Tabagoa settled. set-tled. Their bodies were not recovered. recov-ered. A herd of. steers stampeded from the hold when the vessel struck and smashed a lifeboat which was Just being lowered. Nearly every person per-son In tho boat was drowned, and many, as they fell, were crushed under tho animals The passengers, however, how-ever, found the cattle a godsend and rode ashore upon tho backs of tho bullocks "" |