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Show V fJWMl E MISS0URI INCIDENT. B UmI fil More officers and men were killed on the bat- B i IS Hil! tleship" Missouri than were lost by our navy in the B "fill H Cuban war. It was a most deplorable tragedy. B)) 1h fili ri snowed too, how sometimes Fate pursues a bI ;!Il Bm family. Captain Gridley was commander of Ad- B fiBHl miral Dewey's flaSslliP, the Olympia, at Manila. B iiuBI' Tt was 'lle to whom the Admiral on that fateful B liiimuHl Sunday morning said: "When you are ready, Mr. IBs fiilyni Gridley, you may commence." In that fight Cap- bB ilMBB tain GrIdloy was inJured by being struck by a case BK iiHw oi ammunition as it was being swung up to the Bh ImHH guns, an'l was also prostrated by the heat and KB Mtgj&B die(i a fewdays later. Now, among the victims of Hfll iifflSH tl10 accident on the Missouri was this same Cap- Hf , jH tain Gridley's son, and the poor widow, husband- HHi nflH! Iess and soneS8' sits in ber desolation up where HbH '.,.tnoffBfHI the waves of Lake Erie break upon the shore. HB JiHlH 0nly one ray 0f 1Ight comes from the Missouri HP H accident; the dtiperb discipline of the ship, the Be " B prompt and effective work done on the instant, Bv 'mHm the devotlon of the officers to their men which hbI ni brushed away all difficulties. The picture of the Raw OiBK commander bringing in his arms from that death HbI iJHHi -chamber the body of a dying gunner was a purely Hi :;Br P American picture, and It is one that should be made immortal. The American navy is something which represents the very highest type of American Ameri-can manhood. |
