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Show 7 FORMER UTII AND 7 OTHERS v DIE DfTRDGKS Members of Fishing Party . Pounded to Death in iy1 , Surf Near Santa Ana I as Launch Founders j I VANTA ANA. Cil.. Jun Slgi I men and two boys, members of a' w fishing party, were pounded to death on the rocks of Newport bey jetty B near here yeeterday, when the launch In which they were heading W out to sea waa awamped and cap-m cap-m sized, Five others were saved. Except one. the six men lost all 1 Hanta Ana. The two boys were ; eons of a Santa Ana merchant and I died with their father. I The party had headed out to aea ' fop a day's fishing, when a heavv wave flooded the boat and killed the engine. As she drifted broad- ' I . side onto the swells she was hit T twice again by the waves, the third overturning her close to the Jetty, arainst the rocka on which eight out of the party of thirteen met their deaths. THREE IN ONE FAMILY. fA The deed: If. Newton Thornton, architect, and two sons. Allan and David. Chris Kma. tailor, fc. J. alcCune, furniture dealer. Rogera, employed by Kma and a stranger In Santa Ana. J. G. Kelly, chiropractor. 4 0 E. H. Granger, electrical dealer. 4 Th bodies of Thornton, Kma. Mc-Cune Mc-Cune and Rogers were recovered among the roohs of the Jetty against which the men had been thrown by the heavy Swells and their Uvea battered out. . a 5 f Harry Newton Thornton waa born In ueeds, Kngland, thirty-eight years ago and . with his parents cam to Utah about sixteen years (ago. settling In Salt Lake. For a 'period of about ten years Mr. t Thornton waa engaged In bualneas In Kelt Iik as an architect and j builder, leaving here about alx yeara ! ago to take up hia residence In Idahb Folia, lda where h was engaged en-gaged as an architect and builder until about a year and a half ago w hen h removed to Santa Ana, Cal. 4 DESIONEO HOSPITAL. Mr. Thornton specialized on rural schools and hospitals and was the architect and builder of the big I I. S. boepital at Idaho Falls In addition ad-dition to a laxg nuraberv of schools In that section of Idaho. ' Mr. Thornton married Miss Ulll . Amos of Salt Lake City, who sur-4 sur-4 vlveo him. A daughw, Adeline, aged 14 years, Is witheifcs mother In California. . The deatha of Mr. Thornton and his two anna In the boat accident make a total of five male members I of the Thornton family to meet vlo-k vlo-k lent deaths within th past few years. The father was killed In a railroad accident In Missouri. A little lit-tle more than two yeara ago a brother, Charles Victor Thornton, of Idaho Falls and Salt Lake, was killed In an automobile accident at Ma ho Falls. M w Members of th family surviving. fnwddltlon to the widow and daughter) daugh-ter) are, .Mra. Harriet Thornton, mother, and Mlaa Maud Thornton, a sister, both of whom ar In Los Angeles; Mrs. Hilda Taylor of Rig-by, Rig-by, Ida.; Mra. Adelln Barnard of Portland. Ore., sisters. s a - i -. - |