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Show I WORK OF LIFE 8AVERS. Thousands of People Saved Fron. Qravea In Ocean. Washington. Important work was accomplished during the past yoar'by tho HfoBavInK nervlco of tho government, govern-ment, thousands Of Imperiled lives and millions of dollars' worth of property being saved through tho heroism and unremitting vlgllnnco or tho llto-savors. llto-savors. Gonornl Superintendent Kimball of tho life-Having scrvlcu bIiowb In his annual an-nual report that tho number of nin-rino nin-rino disasters was 810 In tho waters ol tho United States. In theso 40 vus-sols vus-sols and 1!0 lives were lost and Sll porsons were succored nt tho various stations. The total valuo of personal proporty saved' was $12.2Gfl,100. whllo that lost was $2,775,010. In tho disasters dis-asters 6,420 lives were Imperiled. At tho close of tho last llscal year tho life-saving establishments comprised com-prised 270 stations, of which 200 woro on tho Atlnntlc coaBt. fiO on tho Cireat I.nkes, 1 on the Pacific coast propor and ono bach at the fnlls of tho Ohio river and Nome, Alaska. |