Show FIRE CHIEF OWENS OF DENVER A SEISMOGRAPH IN HUMAN FORM Terrence F Owens chief of the Denver I fire department and well known in Salt Lake through numerous visits here is said maid to be a seismograph in human form Denver specialists have discovered a anew anew anew new disease says the Rocky Recky Mountain News Terry Owens chief of the fire firc department has It Several Severa days ago C was allowed a leave leae of absence Physicians testified that his nerves were Vier wrecked and that the cure for him would be tor to take a rest of at least a year Since Sines the publication of reports from Mexico and other points that earthquakes have been destroying life and property the chief his seemed to lose alt all control of his nerves Medical men nen called to at attend attend attend tend the man have reported that he is I suffering from seismic tremors tremor I IThe I The books mention no such disorder as this but nevertheless the doctors claim this Is the proper term for the disorder which has taken Owens away from his duty ut utH Ha He H was In San Francisco last year when the earth trembled and In addition to causing the loss of OO o lives wrecked thousands of dollars worth of property and started the fire that wiped out the Hie greater part of If the city The fact that the San Francisco fire firemen firemen men were helpless against the flames shocked Owens more than the sight of the wrecked buildings and tho tha th bodies of the dead laid out in one of ot the public squares He has been more or less a t nervous wr wreck ck c since On returning to Denver however he improved and was getting along nicely until a trembler devastated the city of or Kingston The chiefs friends at this time tinie noticed that news from the ruined Ja Jamaican Jam Jamaican maican m capital affected him He became I I I I worse than ever but refused to ask for fora a vacation and remained on duty luty uty When the horror of f the West Indian visitation passed pa set from the public mind mindI I t wens again improved Before the acv ac accounts accounts counts of the tremblers In Mexico were printed Owns Owens declared he knew they were going to happen He declared he could feel them coming This time his physicians insisted upon him ilm taking a arest art arest rest rt t telling him that not to do so would them to abandon his case Owens was mis persuaded He Me applied for and was granted a leave lea leaHe He kept telling those with whom hom he lie conversed including his doctors that he was sure that earthquakes would hap I pen soon and on the night of the trem Ibler bIer in southern Mexico they were seri sort seriously seriously alarmed Their patient shook a man in the throes throe of ague And they thought perhaps his mind was wandering w when he declared he was sure that he would stop shaking as soon as the earth stopped quaking His Ills attendants att were or dered to keep kep him perfectly quiet and he was given drugs designed to soothe the nerves Tho medical experts were wera astounded when next morning they picked up the papers I pers and found that during duling the time Owens C wens was trembling the ground under the people in our neighboring republic was rocking them and tumbling t down and killing women children and amid men menNow Now the specialists know what hat they have to guard against and they feel that with ith proper attention and treatment they can cure the disorder dia order that threatens to take from Denver the man long lon consid considered ered emed one of the best heads beads the fire de department has ever Had hh |