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Show o - SAD BEREAVEMENTS. A family of respectability and high I standing in Beaver has been plunged I into the depths of sorrow by reason of the loss of a greatly loved daughter daugh-ter in the Columbia disaster. For - many days, in the absence of confirm atory news of her loss, the hope, slender as it was, that she might yet be reported among the rescued was clung to with a tenacity, the futility of which made the situation the more harrowing by prolonging it. And then, as if the cup of sorrow or reason rea-son of her death were not full enough, the lingering knowledge remains that her sepulchre is not at home, nor among friends, not even among the unfriendly, in the bosom of the earth, but in the cold and billowy embrace of the treacherous ocean. It is all very sad, very tearful, and if sympathy sym-pathy even in great volume could be a comforter, the stricken family would surely be comforted as much as such awful circumstances will permit. per-mit. A day or two later, in the same county in which the victim above spoken of (Miss Winona White) lived but at a different place, Milford occurred another awful tragedy, Conductor Wlilliam Adams of the San Pedro road being knocked down and cut almost to pieces by an engine. He , had a goodly family in Salt Lake City to whom he was greatly attached, had been with the road for a quarter of a century or more and intended to retire re-tire in a short time and lead a more homelike life the remainder of his days. The crucifixion, mental and soulful, of those who undergo such experiences may be imagined but can never be discribed. The more cymc?l will, with Macbeth, dismiss' the subject sub-ject with "Out, brief candlel" while the more philosophical wi'l coincide with the mielancholy Dane "There is a special providence in the fall of a" sparrow." But, then, the former class may insist, how is it that only a sparrow spar-row here and there falls while all the others escape? The answer to which is, the time for the others to fall has not yet arrived; when that time comes they too will join the innumerable innum-erable caravan. It is not a 0'" ring nor even a profitable subjec ol- low, for the reason that speculation regarding it ends where it began in speculation. |