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Show SAVED BV GUNNER'S MATE. Batticahlp Mleaourl Came Near Being Blown to Place. That the neweat battleship ot the navy, tbe Missouri, bad narrow ee-rape ee-rape from being blown to pieces by tbe explosion of a magaslne, and also beached, haa come to light Captain William B. Cowlrs prevented the latter lat-ter wben the vessel was within ISO yards of the beach, by giving orders that tbe ship's course ba changed Chief Gunnor's Mate Monson saved ths ship and tho lives of over (00 men by Jumping Into tho open magaslne and cloalng the door behind blm. The magaxlne was totally flooded with water, and when the men opened the door they found Monaon barely alive, the water having reached his neck |