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Show VOL. VIII. STOCKTON, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY he heaped, their desperate attitude and Early Monday morning contorted features showing the horror awakened by a tremendous roaring of the death struggles. sound. The ruins of the buildings formed Hla bed struck the floor hillocks II test high, under which he wu still on 1L mopaused thousands of persons were burled. The ment, and was again precipitated. vessel was soon loaded down, to Its He struck the next floor, gave utmost capacity with survivors and way at once, and thus man had to steamed came this city. then down from the fifth floor All along the way It was seen that hospital to the ground. The soldier Stockton Sentinel. Published Every Wednesday. The Sentinel Printing and Publishing Company. of Office George and daugh- Edwards, ter Helen, were Salt Lake visitors but week. FRANK L. CONNOR. .Local Manager a NOTICE. Jas. T. Jakentan, Box 17, Salt Lake City, and the local manager are each authorized to collect subscriptions. , THE PUBLISHERS. Mr. Edwards returned Thursday. M(f'. Edwards and daughter Helen will continue their visit for a few weeks. but A A There is more water on the lake bottom now than there has been for J years. X . Mr. George Young went to Salt lake last Saturday morning where he will spend a few days. XX ' The snow fell last Thursday and covered the ground to a depth of about four inches. -- We remained all day - - The card party given at the I. 0. the Rebecca lodge was a grand success. After playing seven games, the guests indulged in dancing. Mrs. Donaldson woo the first ladies' prize, and Mrs. Reynolds the second. F. L. Connor won first prize and gentleman's James Spalding the second. AH had a good lime. O. F. hall laBt week by GERTRUDE MFARLAND WEDS. . found dead. and night alone without help, keeping the rain off with planka. "Thus we were without food or drink among the acreama of the burl- bis majesty grasped Emmanuels, the situation and set to work nil the powers be controlled to alleviate the Searchers Killed at Rsggio. ' horrors of the situation. He participA refugee from Calabria stated that ated actively In the work ot actual an ezpmi train on the road from rescue. Reggio to Naples was brought to Immediately on his arrival at Messlop by the shock when about 18 miles sina the king joined a rescue party along thf mad In Its journey. The snd labored as unremittingly as the passengers demanded that they be others. He personally extricated sevjakea back to Reggio, where they eral Injured persons pinned under the ' " While ruins. Cotad 'l soeae of desolation; 8UCCESS. . M Mr. George B. Creehc of Salt Lake Mr. Alex Frazier and family of Salt and Miss McFarlane of Gertrude Lake visited relatives and friends in Stockton were married at Salt Lake Stockton last Thursday. last week. Miss McFarlane is one of X X our town girls, her parents have been Mer-cu- r of wife Mr. Deny Sullivan and in this place many years. The visited Mr. Sullivan's sister, Mrs. living Sentinel wishes them a long and Jake Beaman, last Sunday. pleasant journey through life. X X o Mr. Robert Sherley was very ill BELLS. WEDDING was and last Saturday evening, taken to the hospital at Tooele. Mr. Bert Miller and Miss Mable X X Mrs. Thomas Conway, formerly of Young were married at Tooele last this place, returned again last week week and are making istheir home in the daughter after operating a hotel at Ophir for Stockton. The bride of Mr. and Mrs. Alma Young, one of some time. the oldest families of the county. The Jl X Miss Green, Stockton's primary Sentinel wishes them a long and hapschool teacher, visited her relatives py life. o and friends In Tooele last Saturday, BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL. returning Sunday morning. X X Mr. Matt Reese returned home from Connor, our local photog. F. L. the hospital where he has. been for the in to do is anything rapher, prepared six weeks. Mr. Reese is somelast line the photo framing, enlarging, what Improved. The Sentinel hows copying, etc. He will go anywhere h.e will be able to continue to mend to take anything. Mrs. John Wilde returned with her father, Mr. Reese, to stay a few IT IS A 8URPRISE. weeks. o As yet there has been no reason to STOCKTON GOES SUNDAY DRY. recant any of the good things that were said of the strike in the Honer-mein- e The town of 8tockton was very dry Extension at Stockton. The ore last Sunday owing to an order of the opened a couple of weeks ago has town board which necessitated lids been followed 42 feet and the face of down. the drift contains the hest yet. Some of the directors of the company have NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. visited the property and were surU. S. Land Office at Salt Lake Cily, prised to find it looking so well. One of the' strange things about directors Utah. January 4, 1909. is that they are always "surprised Notice is hereby given that Ira 8. when a mine looks very well, indeed, Hatch, of Clover, Tooele County, hut never surprised In the least when Utah, who, on April 9th, 1907. made things go all to the bad. The latter homestead entry 16744. Serial No. course of events seems always to 01261. for southeast quarter southhave been anticipated and is never east quarter, section 9; west half "an bad as was expected. One would southwest quarter and northeast think that an optimist would, non quarter southwest quarter, section 10. and then, be elected a director! Well, township 6 south, range 7 west. Salt lierhaps the directors are optimists lake Meridian, has filed notice of inwhen they are elected. Goodwin'a tention to make final commutation Weekly. proof, to establish claim to the land o above described, before the register CAR LINE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. CLd receiver of the U. S. Land Office, at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 19th The new smelter company at Pine lay of February, 1909. Claimant names as witnesses: Robcanyon la now very busy grading for a car line from Tooele depot to their ert Condie, of Salt Lake City, Utah; works, and expect tq have cars run- R. F. Hatch, of Woods Cross, Utah: ning to the smelter in 60 days. Albert Burrs, and Harry EL Smith, of Things in Tooele have taken quite a Clover. Utah. E. O. R. THOMPSON. Register. -boom. The last few months real esFirst publication.' January G. 1909. tate has advanced very fast. It will look strange to some of the old timers last publication, Feb. 3, 1909. apsed, the floor opened and I was thrown into the first floor apartment of. Mme. Pernicl. She was reaching for her slater and son, whom we the wreckage. Jg ents. Imprisoned with the Dead. Prof. Palermo of the University off Messina lost two aona. "I wu sleeping in my bed, he aald, "when I wu thrown out of bed, which fell on top of me. The ceiling coll- u a. A GRAND them. In Naples public buildings and privets houses were thrown open to the refugees and everything possible was dons for their comfort. ..The duchess of Aosta was Indefatigable in her mini- injured. u nt-hr- JS was not ed. The latter ceased somewhat at night. No one came with assistance and we were as if In a tomb alongside the bodies. Children, wounded, were around us, but invisible under the ruins and weeping In despair or bursting into piercing cries at every sound heard without When we finally essina He declared that many of the caped from the ruins we were taken residents of that place had been burlby sallurs to the Crlstoforo Colombo, ed alive, si groans were heard com which brought us to Naples. lug from far down in the fissures of . "We pasaed through atreeta that the earth, which could only be ap- felt If they were the bottoms of proached with the greatest precautvalleys or climbed heights which were ion. At these points the tottering all that remained of the finest palaces walls threatened further collapse. The of Messina. I will never forget It ns caused cries victims of the anguished I live. long a half frenzy among the nallori, who In several cases excavated under dan garous places and rescued wounded Royal Couple Assist Rescuers. people. In other caeea they reached The'klng snd queen of Italy went to bodies that separated in parts when In the battleship Messina Vittorio efforts were made to drag them from and j Miss Addle Spalding, who is working in Salt Lake, is visiting her par- the smiling villages on the Calabrian coast bad disappeared. Roth Scylla and Chsrybdla had vanished with strations, going from .Steamship to steamship and bringing1 to the suffer era a word of comfort The wounded were carried to the ambulances between two files of soldiers to protect them from the too expressive man! f (stations of sympathy from the crowd that had gathered at the piers. The means of transportation . was augmented by strong arms of sympathisers, Id which some of the more seriougly wounded were carried in lieu of litters. The commander of the Russian battleship Makharoff, who brought word of American Conaul Chenoya death, described Uw fearful scenes at Mes- Joe Williamson and Frank Worthing vrc putting up ire fur the Ophir Mercantile company Burton Pelt, formerly of this place, now of Brigham, returned last week and will clerk for his brother-in-law- , George E. Edwards. R E. W. Clark, manager of the Ophir Mrs. Bert Wilson is visiting in Salt Hill Mining company, returned from Lake. Nevada last week and left in a few A Jt ' The Sentinel should be In every days for Bingham to look after minhome. ing interests there. X X A PLEA8ANT SURPRISE. Subscribe for the Sentinel, your home paper. A very enjoyable surprise party X X Mr. Hans Peterson Is about to ship was given at the home of Mrs. Conway in honor of her daughter Nellie. The a car of first class ore. M surprise was complete. Games were John England, Jr., of Tooele, was played and a very delicious lunch was here Saturday afternoon. served, after which the guests were taken to the Ophir hall and the rest X X Mr. William Mills shipped a car of of the evening was spent in dancing. H. J. Green, formerly of thla town, first class ore last Friday. . . but now of Tooele, is in town at presCall at F. L. Connors for town pos- ent writing.'-- It is strange they all "come back to Ophir. tal's and part of the county. X X STUDY WELL ITS MERITS. Mrs. John Painterwho has been on the sick list la around again. We see that some members of the X , Little and Macklnson are about to state legislature are out with a local option bill. Let everybody study the ship another car of first class ore. X subject carefully and decide for themMr. John Brazier was a Salt Lake selves whether alcohol Is or Is not a visitor last week returning Friday, necessity. "RABTUB." J M Mr. James Harris, who is now at Pine Canyon, visited Stockton Friday. to see cars running through, the streets of Tooele and Its citizens X another. In.'tha Jurt1lsHr car of coal from the south last week. prises. t t sad hut thla and ot the Davie lost a valuable horse last week. It fell over a cliff. Wm. Man son made a business trip Salt lake City last week. to One year, $1.50; six months. $1.00; three months, 75 cents Samuel Pollock made a business matter at trip to Salt Lake City last wee. Entered as second-clas- s the postoffice at Stockton, Utah. EL wife 19U9. halo.a It "Dad Blthell la very poorly at this writing. EL Main Street, publication. Stockton, Utah. Stockton, Utah. January 27, NO. 27. 27. 1909. Italy. The hue 60 feet deep opened near the Church the of Santa Maria, and houses fell bodaccompanying fire and tidal ily Into that devastated During the voyage of the Therapii Calabria almost to Naples a child was born. Now defy description. that it is possible to obUln coherent Houses Vanished Instantly. accounts from the few that escaped A physician named Condo, a native from the stricken district with their of Messina, said he escaped by climblives many were for a time without ing over the fallen roofs. Houses vanthe light of reason it is realized that ished with the suddenness of a dream certainly not for 20 centuries per and daylight showed nearly two mllee haps never have such scenes been of rulna. Steamships put out to cross enacted on the earth. the straits for help after the first One of the first of the survivors that shock of the earthquake, but half way reached the steamship Therapie the over they met vessels from the oppoday following the catastrophe thus site coast which carried the news that described his experiences: Reggio, too, had perished. I was asleep when the first shock The wounded refugees that reached awoke me. I lit my lamp, but all was this city presented a sickening sight, quiet, and I turned to sleep again. some appeared hardly human; others Suddenly fresh shocks occurred, vio- among the fugitives had no apparent lent and terrifying. I arose quickly injuries, but were in such a deplorabut the house was swaying and my ble mental condition that they seemed door was jammed. I tore the sheets the worst of all. The horror of that from the bed and made a rope and tragic minute appeared to be Ineradl-cabllowered myself from the window to fixed upon their faces. On the the street An Italian family of five relief ships the refugees were heaped persons escaped from the house by everywhere. Some of them apiieared the aid of my rope. to be stricken with a kind of Idiocy, looking aimlessly before them; others' Wandered All Day. completely mad, howled wildly. The "No sooner were we in the street commander of the Therapie gave a than the house collapsed. I tried to thrilling description of the rescues efassist in the work of rescue, but it fected by his men when his ship arwas useless. The horror and confu- rived at Messina. As the vessel drew sion were indescribable. All day I up before the city it was surrounded wandered in the wrecked streets. N( by a flotilla of boats and tugs loaded food could be secured. I had only a to the gunwales with men and women few nuts to eat The prison was de- who piteously cried for food and stroyed and the warders killed, but drink, for they had nothing fur 24 most of the convicts escaped. They hours. On entering the port a treprowled about the ruins, robbing and mendous clamor greeted their ears. It murdering. They cut off the fingers was the survivors screaming for help. of the dead and wounded to get the From the water front Messina appearrings. Some of them were singing ed to be intact, as the facades of tbs songs of liberty as they plied the One buildings along that lino of knife. streets still were standing, but behind "A Russian vessel lying in the har- was emptiness and ruin. The princibor was thrown into the street by the pal square presented an awe inspiring tidal wave. Railway lines were swal- aspect. Everywhere were enormous lowed up. The square known as the cracks into which the sea poured, Cas Campo Santo collapsed and sank. whence clouds of steam and sulphurOnly the summits of a few ruined ous vapors arose. buildings still emerged from the wreck. Corpses Heaped In Streets. In all the streets or what had Not one of the numerous hotels of been streets corpses were the city remained standing. A fissure ice it NAPLES, y ci rahJrvkoe seattitlufDr.&icjPa curred and practically all the paaaen-ger- a wen killed. At Meeilna, after Vapid work of or ganlsatlon, progress was made in the work of succoring the wounded survivors, but no attempt was at first made to remove the wreckage. The troops and sailors were obliged to shoot down robbers wbo persisted in looting. The entire local treasury of the Uessina branch of the Bank of Italy, some $2,000,000, was saved and placed on board an Italian warship. Many of the people of Messina refuted to leave the ruins of ihelr ;". - ; psztlln ; the work. She rescued with her own baud a boy of three years, who was bleeding from many cuts, and herself carried him to the dock where she handed him over to members of the She devoted her atthospital corps. ention principally to the little children and labored long amid the scenes -T- . Usvqiwwivstoe-toeli-aaUv of borror. Thote wbo brought news here from Catania of the visit of the king and queen said that the horrors of the ruined city were added to by the counties number of bodies lying nil abouL Such a force of laborers as of it would be impossible houses. They dung to the sites to gather, their homes, crying out that their only equip snd sent to Messina would have The safety wu la fidelity to the wrecka been needed to bury the dead. often was task waa regarded as beyond human of their houeea. Force within the nacessary to get them to the ships In power of accomplishment lha harbor. There were large numperiod which would make such die- bers In lbs suburbs of Messina who posal of the bodies effective. would not coma back into the city for fear at a recurrence of the shocks. Lima Spread Over the City. Hopeless Search for Relatlvee. So it was arranged to have tens ot German steamer The Serapin thousands of tons of lime taken to Messina In ships snd carried over the brought stories of heartrending separation of families, and the hopeless city and aprt-aeverywhere. and frantic seeking of relatives one The messengers from Messina could Mr the other. 8hortly after the Sera-pinot find words of sufficiently high decked a gangplank waa lowered pralae for the conduct of the king and and a tew persons were allowed on queen. They said that their majesties board. The refugee! were found sitleft the battle ship and hurried Into the rulna of the city ns If their own ting in Isolated groups. They gave evidence of great mental near and dear ones lay amid the depression, and were utterly exhaustwreckage. ed. They seemed scarcely conscious Owing to the overwhelming charof their surroundings. Most of them acter of the disaster, the hastily estwere held In the thrall of their terri-blablished hospital and relief corps were woefully inadequate to the work. experiences. little So it waa that before their najeatlea One old man wu carrying bad gone more than a few rods from girl In hie arms. The child was covered with blood. the dock they found themaelvea "Is that your child f he wu uked. among the ruina with the dead all "I found her on about them. Even tbe dying pinned No," hs replied. I picked beneath walla and masonry beard the the pavement In Messina. hur up and cared for her. No one1 wild cries of welcome mingled with claimed her and I could not abandon the chorus of walling as a great mob men and women her. I have had her In my arma ever of since." crowded about the royal couple aud With this touching explanation the followed them as their guards made a old man became oblivious to bla quest- way Into the rulna. ioner and everything around him. The king made himself dear to nil The Serapin brought Into thla port hla subjects, especially to those in records of numberless tragedies. Fami- the earthquake zone, by his prompt lies separated, mothers moaning and and personal aid In times of disaster. crying Mr their dead children, husThis makes plausible a story told by bands snd wives lost to each other, or hla companions, who said that aa the a sols survivor wishing that he had royal pair and the crowd surrounding not been spared. them made their way through the Then wu one girl on board the rulna a man pinued under great tenner, her clothing tattered and block of atone and supposed to be tom, who had uved a canary bird. dead raised his head, repeated the She wu a music hall singer and had cries of acclaim snd dropped back clung to her pel throughout the terridead. ble secerns of devastation. The bird Thera waa a deep coating of mud all wu the only happy thing on the ves- over and their majesties walked n o d a sel. The queen to tears by Fall Five Floors; Uninjured. the sight of the homeless, helpless lira stories told by these unfortuwomen who followed her crying for nate refugees are almost unbelievable. pity, by their misfortunes, A soldier named Emilio de Castro, reif she looked upon them they' threw lates (hit on Sitnduy, the day before themaelvea upon their knees In the the dlsuter, he taken aiek and mire and with clasped hands prayed through it in their work. waa frequently affected half-craae- d w.-- to the military hosuital. for her help. |