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Show TWENTY-NINE LOSE LIFE. Heavily Loaded Barge Swamped and Man Thrown Into River. New York There was given out from the bntlleshlp New Hampshire Sunday night a list of twenty nine men who were supposed to have per Ished by the awumplng of a barge which was being towed to the vessel at anchur In lb Hudson river Siitur day night. Appended lo this list are the names of eleven men w ho are s.... absent, but who wero not recognised a having been In the swamped bout Various versions of how the ccl dent occurred aro In circulation. Tim generally accepted one, however, la thut the barge, heavily, loaded wllh sailor and tuuilues returning from shore leuve, wu losed Into the beuvy swell uf a pusslug steamer. Itlslng for a moment like cork, Ihe bulge then plunged Into the trough between two waves, one of which broke over the side and wnuipcd It. |