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Show 1? V A CITY DRUG STORg JNO. J. BANKS, Prop. SIXTY LIVES LOST BY THE EXPLOSION NEWS SUMMARY OF BOILERS OF GUNBOAT BENNINGTON i George Z. Work, long a leading wholesale tailor of Chicago, died suddenly Friday night of heart failure, while riding on an electric car. Whltelaw Reid, the American presented D. Ogden Mills of New York and San Francisco to King pal-acEdward Friday at Buckingham u f Eugene F. Bert, lawyer and president of the 1aclflc Coast Baseball league, who shot himself ten days ago, Is Improving. He will, It la now be Ileved, recover. Marlon Williams, the widely-know"Middle of the Road" Populist, died at Austin, Texas, Sunday, in the lnsano asylum, where he had been confined for several years. By a vote of five to one the striking woodworkers of Chicago have refused to abandon the fight against fourteen Btore and bar fixtures factories for an Increase in wages. H. Vanderhorst, secretary of the Brooklyn baseball club, died Friday from heart failure due to aneurism of the aorta. He was born fifty-fou- r years ago In Baltimore. Dr. Juan Pablo Rojas Paul, former president of Venezuela, died Monday, lie was born In 1845. Dr. Rojas Paul was president of Venezuela from February 20, 1888, to February 20, 1890. Fire destroyed the Arkansas Democrat companys three-storbuilding and printing plant at LItle Rock, causing a loss of 180, 00p. Dan D. Taylor, a sterdtyper, was burned to death. Mrs. Harry Norton was arrested sj Shawnee, Okla., Thursday for the mur der of Mrs. Kate James, near Weather ord, Okla., on July 8, and within an hour committed suicide by taking . poison. The Norwegian Government has proposed to the Storthing the holding of a referendum on the dissolution of the union with Sweden. The was referred to a special comn , t f i ' i i i t i 4 pro-pos- mittee. Bigler Johnson was hanged Tuesday at Towanda, Pa. The crime for which he was hanged was the murder of hlq wife, Margaret Johnson, from whom he had separated, and her nte?e, Annie Benjamin. t . Miss Nellie V. Walker of Chicago has been commissioned to execute a 450,000 monument to the memory ot the late W. S. Stratton ot Colorado Springs, owner of the famous Independence mine. Governor Beckham of Kentucky hns honored a requisition of the governor of California for W. II. Buchanan, under arrest in' Louisville and wanted In Redlands county. California, on a charge of forgery. Joseph Myer, aged 60, a pawnbroker of Detroit, was killed Friday night by thieves, who caught him atone In hit office. The thieves got away with about G00 In money and perhaps 84.000 worth of diamonds. The bodies of the negroes have been recovered from the olj fire In the Hum-bfled. The loss Is now estimated at 8275.000 in oil and tank damage. The fire is still burning, but Is confined to na area of 100 acres In extent. Sentence has been passed in the rase of former Marquis Francis Mac Nutt, the wealthy American, who was papal chamberlain of the Clonk and Sword at Rome, until deprived of hit title and office on the charge of disMncNutt Is conorderly conduct. demned to three months Imprisonment with provisory liberty.' A cable received announces the death In Seoul, Korea, Wednesday, of Arthur S. Dlxey, private secretary to United States Minister Morgan. IN was graduated front Harvard with tho class of 1902, and was a native of Boston. - e r , i mander Lucleu Young and Sur'geon disasters as are common among pasF. E. Peck were on shore. Tbe two senger and merchant vessels. Tbe story of shipwreck and disasofficers, as soon as they learned of tbe to the American navy Is a short ter to hurried tbe water front, disaster, our first steam war where Commander-Youn- g Immediately one. The Fulton, took charge. vessel, was destroyed by an xexplosion lives On board the Bennington were pre- of tbe magazine and twenty-sisented terrible scenes. The force of were lost. The brig Somers was sunk forty-on- e the explosion had torn a great hole by a squall Dec. 9, 1846. and of war The sloop lost. were In the starboard side of the ship, and lives the vessel was already commencing to Huron was wrecked on the coast of list. A section of the upper deck was North Carolina Nov. 24, 1877, and 100 lives were lost. carried away from stem to stern. On the evening of Jan. 24, 1870, the Blood and wreckage were distributed over the entire ship, the after Oneida, steaming out of the harbor of cabin and the vicinity of the ship ad- Yokohama, Japan, homeward bound, run jacent to the exploded holler resem- after a three years cruise, was Over It all down by the British passenger steambling a charnel house. minhung the great cloud of white smoke, er Bombay and sank In fifteen ninety-fivand officers a Coro-nadTwenty-twutes. which drifted slowly toward the men were lost. March 15, 1889, shore. Commander I.ucien Young said: As the Trenton and Vandalia were wreckto the cause of the explosion I cannot ed and the NIpsl stranded in a storm e say anything, because I do not know. at Apia, Samoan Islands, and fifty-onto ; v " the 2, On 1894, Feb. were lost. I do know is that the damage lives What was caused by an exploding boiler or Kearsarge was wrecked on Roncadoi boilers. The crown sheet of boiler B reef, but no lives were lost. Aside from the vessels lost in the collapsed and the boiler head blew out, seas, this makes up our list ol arctic the steel bulkhead breaking through separating It from boiler D. the other naval disasters down to the time ol main port boiler Immediately aft. the destruction of the Maine in Ha Boiler D was forced back, the crown vana harbor, which was an act of war sheet collapsing and breaking down Other of our naval vessels had thrill the steel bulkhead separating It from Ing experiences In storms, but without the fireroom. livery one In the great loss of life. at the time was killed. Three For example, while anchored oil on the Island of St now are bodies down Frederlcksted, the Commander Young pinioned by dore Stockton at old Sau Pasqual, or collapsed crown sheet of .boiler D and Croix, Nov. 18, 1867. the Monongahela four more by the burst bulkhead. was lifted by an earthquake wave and who wore the blue in the civil war. bodies we are now to carried over a number of warehouses These Army and navy paid their last trib- release. Ore of the bodies Istrying and landed In one of the streets of the wedged utes no less sincere than the grief of In such shape that It may be necestown. A receding wave carried her the Representatives of peace. From to dismember It In order to take out of town and placed her on a coral sary Fort Bosecrans came the 115th comIt out. reef, but without serious damage and pany, coast artillery. From the city men who were Injured say that with only five of the crew lost. The Tbe of San Diego the naval reserves, from was afterward successfully the Universal Brotherhoods home on It has been the talk of the ship for ship at leaRt six months that the boilers launched from the reef. Point Loma a company of khaki-clawere defective. The cruiser De Soto was torn from Many of them had representatives, and from the government ship Fortune a dozen sailors. WRECKED GUNBOAT BENNINGTON. But the most Impressive body of mourners was the fifty-twmen from P v 1 .sthe battered Bennington. Beside these r ' ' ' ; there were hundreds of civilians who ' - v" . , tt brought their offerings of flowers to V i 't .4 -- . i x lay upon the graves. Besides those burled at San Diego there are eleven more bodies In tbe morgues awaiting shipment to relatives, and there are two bodies still In the fireroom of the Bennington, making the total sixty. There are forty-nin- e wounded at various hospitals and there are sixteen missing, 4 ' tlwrl t .. a ' i. . making the aggregate of victims 125. tV;Of the Injured at hospitals seven or eight are expected to die. 'They burled the gunboat, Banning-on- s dead at San Diego Sunday of them in a common grave In the little military burying ground cn the promontory of Point l.oma. All about them He those who died In the na'lons service In more trying times. Gravestones, yellow with age, bear the names of men who died at Monterey, in the Mexican war; others who gave up their life in the conquest of California, who followed Commo- even hat decided to resign his position the autumn. In Clem Bicker, a wlfo heater of Portland, was Thursday subjected to ten laches under the recently enacted taw . providing for the thrashing of Bicker tried his best to tie brave, but the last few blows from the whip caused him to cry out In agony. Engineer Thompson and Fireman Taylor were killed in a wreck of passenger train No. lu on the Galveston, Harrisburg ft Sun Antonio railway, fifteen miles cyst of Sunder son, Tex., caused by spreading of rails. The spikes, it Is reported, had been pulled. qlfe-beaters- west-iKtiiu- DRUGS MEDICINES PRESCRIPTIONS COMPOUNDED 'Y Insurance Greatest Agency W. H. RAY, Phoue TIME TABLE . Ave. SIS S. Arrival end departure of train, t No. 7 For Sprtnville, Provo, Suit Lk. nnd all points e.xtaniJ , No. 29 For prlngvills Provo.S!t ui'. nd all points oat an t . No. 8 For Eureka, Mammo.h anil sit UTAH. PROVO, - x J i-t ''' s, . vi Accident Seen from Shore. Broken and blackened, with her flag flying at half mast, her bold filled with fifteen feet of water, the United State gunboat Benningtou lies beached on the shores of San Diego harbor. Sixty Of her crew lay dead at elty morgues, the fate of a dozen more is as yet undetermined, and three score are stretched upon beds of pain In various hospitals. This is tbe result of the explosion which wrecked the trim little naval craft and wrought such terrible havoc among her crew of 192 officers and men at 10:10 oclock on the morning of July 21. The Bennington at the time of the accident was lying In the stream just off the commercial wharf at the foot of II street. The warship bad received orders from the Navy department at Washington to sail for Port Hartford, where she wss to meet the monitor Wyoming and convoy the vessel to Mare Island navy yard. Steam was up and everything was In readiness for sailing when suddenly and without any warning whatever the starboard forward boiler exploded with a deafening roar. The explosion was terrific, people standing on the shore saw a huge cloud of white steam rise above the Bennington. Columns of water were burled Into the air'and for a distance of nearly twice the height of the spars of the vessel. At the time of the accident Com .trl r? 2 ..INSURANCE.. WRIT! 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One of the men said that a year ago last February, while the ship was at Magdalena bay, the engineer of the cruiser New York was sent for to Inspect the boilers, and he reported that they were In good condition. While the vessel was in San Francisco last year the talk of deft ctlve hollers again arose, but no steps were taken to remedy tht m. Other Lost Warships. Tbe duhttuctlon of tbe gunboat Bennington in Sun Diego harbor was an ill palling disaster. But it does not the Intimation that warships are more liable to accidents than other vessels. The very opposite is true, a- tie vessels of the Armrlcnn navy have been singularly free from such ju.-iif- - - - t 'r ' ' "., f p melon i.LB ' nnd , One blook north of Bonk, her moorings In the harbor of St. Thomas about the some time and I throw n upon the piles of a new wharf The receding sea carried her into deep water again with little injury. In 1868 an earthquake wave broke the storeshlp Fredonla In pieces officers drowning twenty-seveand men, nnd carried the steamer Waterec half a mile Inland. The vessel was a total loss, but only one man was lost from tho Waleree. This record of disaster In the American navy Is lost sight of when rompar ed with the disaster record in the llrlt Ish navy. Six hundred lives were lost In the disaster to the Royal George 250 on the Amphlon, 100 on the Nassau. 291 on the Sceptre, 673 on the Queen Charlotte. 126 on the Invincible 250 on the Ajax, thirty on the Mlro taur, 300 on the Saldnnha, 2,nuo when the St. George and other were destroyed, 365 on the S.-- warships Horse, 200 on the Avenger, 454 on the Bur tonhead, 472 on the Ironrlftd Captain. Son on the Eurydlce, 280 pn the 167 on the torpedo cruiser Serpent. 358 on the battleship Victoria, sunk by the Cumpcrdown. and 400 on tho Lady Nugent. patlsk fort, i t World's Most Important Drug. Chicagoans Not Worried. 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