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Show CAPlj ! ins Newark, N. J., April 10. Captain John Hanson, master of a stono barge, was knocked into Newark bay yesterday and drawu Into a government govern-ment sand sucking dredge half a mile away. His dismembered body was carried through a fourtcen-Inch pipe two thousand feet long out into the Newark meadows. The barge, .May Madison, was being be-ing towed from Newark to New York by a tug. In passing through the draw of a railroad bridge the barge butted into a stone pier and threw Captain Hansen overboard. An hour afterward Captain Hansen had fallen from the barge, the four men at the further end of the pipe on the Meadows wore surprised to see parts of a man's body shot out of the pipe with the flood ot sand and water. The sections formed a complotc man's body. In a pocket papers were found Identifying 'tho body as that of Captain Hanson. |