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Show mum G"S'!ri ! mm mi Provo Roy AeoiJsr.ta'ly Srv.;: To Death On A Transport Georgo T IVay, Jr., received the folio wins telegram, Saturday: ' . Now York, - " August 24, 1918.' George T. Peay, Jr., .,. .' Provo, Utah, , Your son, Polos Lerpy Peay, accl-dentally accl-dentally scalded to death by steam : today, while in the performance of j his duty. (Remains sent to I?. S. Na val hospital New York Please communicate com-municate with Surgeon General. Navy Department,' 'Washington, D, by j telegraph relative to disposition of body. " Sympathy of myself, officers j and crev: extended to yourself 'and family, I (Signed) D. P. SWl.i!.. PR 3. , U. . s. Navy Commanding, U. S. S. Agaminnon.; Mr. Peay haa wired to Washington for the body to be sent home. Delos Peay was 24 years of age. He enlisted in the navy, November 1. J917, and was for a time stationed at Mare Island.- California, and later transferred to the Atlantic service. ills was a stoker and had mado five trips across the ocean on transports. He spent a week in Provo," this month ou a furlough leaving for New York, August 7. The young man was a magnificent' specimen of manhood, standing 6 feet 2 and weighing 184 pounds. He Is the second Provo man so far as knoyn, to die while actually engaged in duty in the army or navy during the present war. His parents, three brothers and three sisters and uumerous other relatives rel-atives survive him. |