Deseret Evening News | 1908-01-07 | Page 1 | Bennington Victims

BENNINGTON VICTIMS Memorial Monument to Them Is 11 oll elied l nt at San Diego Ico San Sari Diego Dle o Cal Ca Jon Jan 7 In the Ihl pres enee of ot thousand thousands including the time orrl officers cers celli anti and sailors of ot the tho th Pacific squad squadron squadron ron anti and citizens of Ban San Diego and ad Of t other southern California cities who had gathered here to witness the core many time the memorial monument to th lila tho Bennington dead was unveiled afternoon at the Ihl national cemetery nn in n top of 1 Point LomB The fhe plain shaft shott stands stand within the th plot where ore ole buried burle the most of those who lost their lle Ilc In tIm tho disaster that marked the tho morn ing hours of July 21 i 1 1905 and Is com coat composed posed hosed of or 74 slabs of ot San Diego county count granite roughly dressed and towering ro Co feet Ceet above the tho concrete base rapped capped by 11 a 1 pyramid of ot polished granite Th national cemetery Is Ie almost at nl the top of ot the promontory so moo that lint the hit moon monument ment Jocks In iii one ana direction out over the Pacific and on the other over oer the waters water of 0 t the bay ba