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Show Fell Forty Feet nnd Crushed His Skull Lieutenant Albert Heritor of Fort Dodge, Kan., ordnanco officer of thu battleship' Maine, foil from tho forward for-ward turret to tho handling room, n dlstanco of forty feet, on Tuesday, says n dispatch from Nowport, R. I., and died an hour later without regaining re-gaining consciousness. At tho tlmo of tho accident tho battleship was off Gay Head, on routo for Menemsha Right, to engngo In target practice. Lieutenant Berber was examining articles ar-ticles of ordnanco, when he lost his balanco and pitched head foremost through tho turret to the handlina room. His skull was fractured. |