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Show THE SUICIDES i BOflRDjrRANSPDRT Two of the Victims Members of Fifteenth Infantry, Who Became Insane. SAN" FRANCISCO, May 2(5. Hiroe men committed suicide by leaping from tho deck of the United States army transport Thomas into tho sea and another an-other was beaten nearly to death on board the vessel durinjr the trip from the Orient which ended today when the steamer reached this port. William Hood, a young water tender, whose skull was crushed, is in the United Unit-ed States marino hospital in a serious condition. L. Lopez, a coal passer, with whom he had quarreled, and who is bolieved bv the officers of the Thomas to be Itood's assailant, is in custody. The first man to leap into the ocean from tho transport was a Filipino member mem-ber of the crew, who jumped ovorboard while tho ship was muking its way from Honolulu to Portland. After the Twenty-first infantry had disembarked for tho Vancouver barracks and the Thomas was off the Oregon coast, Chi Ranato Pirozzoli, who had beon confined con-fined in the detontion ward on board broke from his attendants and hurled himself over the side. His body was recovered and shipped to rolativcs in Portland. Pirozzoli's death waB followed by tho suicido of A. O'Callaghnn, another insane in-sane patient, who sprang into tho water wa-ter aftor a fight with several of the crew. Both were members of tho Fifteenth Fif-teenth infantry. |