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Show FATHER LOSES LIFE TO SAVE HIS SON While trying to save his nine-year-old son, James Forgie, proprietor of the Forgie hotel of Milford perished in the flames that destroyed his hotel early this morning. i All the guests had escaped from the j burning building and Forgie had also i reached safety when someone raised I the cry to save David Forgie, the nine- i year-old son of the proprietor. Forgie I who was in his night clothes, rushed ! back into the hotel and was not seen ' again until his chared remains were j found in the ruins of the hotel this ! afternoon. The little boy whom Forgie j had gone to rescue had already been j saved, though this ,fact was unknown j to the father. I The fire in the hotel broke out just : before midnight. The alarm was sound- j ed in time for all the guests to escape. ; Maynard Grissman leaped from the ; second story window and is suffering ; from a sprained ankle. No one save ; Forgie was at all injured. The guests j escaped in their night clothes and were taken to nearby residences, The cold i was intense. The hotel burned quickly.and only i the rapid and cool headed work of the j firemen saved the adjacent buildings. The contents were destroyed. The loss on the hotel is from $Sl)D0 to $10,000. The insurance was $50110. The Forgie hotel was one of the best hostleries of southern Utah. It was erected 1902 and became famous as a headquarters for mining men from all parts of the country. Forgie was one of the most prominent mining prospectors of the west He j was born in the county of Down, Ireland. Ire-land. February '25, 1851. He came to America in 1871 and lived for a time in I Chicago. In 1875 he came to Beaver j county, Utah, to engage in mining in j what was then known as North Star, j but what is now Shauntie. Two years j later he went to Frisco, Utah, and en- gaged in the liquor business. Later he was a member of the firm of Forgie & Olsen in the general merchandise business. busi-ness. On January 1, 1880, he married Gomes Hildebrand at Frisco. Forgie returned to Shauntie in 1880 and located the famous Jennie mine. In 1885 he went to Idaho, where he was a ranchman for two or three years. Then he returned to Milford and became famous as a prospector. Among the famous ore bodies located by him was the famous Gomes claim, now a part of the Harrington Hickory workings. From 1902 he was in the hotel business at Milford, operating the Forgie hotel in the burning of which he lost his life. Forgie is survived by a widow and ten children, five of whom are married. Two sisters and three brothers also survive sur-vive him. Tribune. |