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Show pVENTURERS' CLUB 1 o .) AD LINES FROM THE LIVES , , PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI 'Death Win Confused" i r Uy M.OVO CltlHONS Famous llc-AilUuc Hunter rV-i-10' KYr.KYHODY: j As a rule, it doesn't pay to look too much like some-seV. some-seV. Yovl klK'w how embart'assin-: it is to have some j '.y'i.mo rush up to you gushing, "Why Tom Waters, Cp'-eon earth have you been? I haven't seen you for aj'es;' .. -'jvourdear mother?" eto. y.sjn.w.e has always bcon Henry Jones nnd you don't know the K.il ,.Um'J 1X' but ''HI sti"ul thoro lm 0:f woiulering how you , ,-s-t U'.e mistake without hurtini; her feelm;;s. have been pointed out as robbers mul murderers, served terms I cm and even raid with Ueir lives for liking like someone else. i ' Xvfr lurr" lh lt snul,"e walks up to you und says, "Well, if j-i o'J J-1 Poakes himself. Here's that five hundred bucks you Kl k twelve years ;;o." IX luckier, very much luckier, thins than that have come to a ,i;vf men because they were thought to be other persons. One of , "is William H. P. Bonce, of Laurelton. L. I , who sent me today's j,1J17 Bill was where most Cmaduns w ere in the Canadian army, . a r-eoercber 6 of tli.it year he was at Wellington barracks. Haii-.', Haii-.', ' N:vi S-'Iis- At 9 o'clock in the morning on that awful day in Ilali-; Ilali-; ' jjwis sundini inspection in the barracks yard. The commanding ": Xr '" in front Bl11, H,!inS 0Vt" "is equipment with nn jjjve, when all at once the air seemed to quiver, there w as a dread-' dread-' - iJp'sish. followed by a TERRIFIC KXPLOSIOJ. T!ie oilU-er was ' ' Jri vic2et-.:l" a..ii"st B.U and they belli went dow n togeLher. 1 Ihf officer, swearing a blue streak, got to tils fet-t. 15111 sat : ip iri saw that every man In the battalion on parade had been : Kownfij' l'ie Pck of crds- Instruments of the band were seat-1 seat-1 tfwi the bass drum was bowling across the yard like a ' : tin; possessed. ' Ibi air bocar.-.e thick and yellow as a London fog and carrying ":J t;h it was the rumble of failing masonry. Through the murk the iers cou'.d see t-.e solidly-built barracks buildings melting away us -.,"' isetUid inwards. -. . Fanic in the NVrecketl Barracks. -' r.'j tk-e cry. -The magazine is going up run for your lives!" there " - s-3i rush f-r the main gale. Put above the shouts of the men and ' - r.-ir cf falling masonry came the screams of women and children fed a crumbled, married men's barracks. And standing at the I ,"' Bill's Legs Were I'inned Between Two Beams. 'I H rli outstretched arms ar.d t':-od dripping from a cut over one eye 1 1! ! ,1 Private McC'.ellan. a ra:her irre?:: T.s.'w'.e soldier, who. often as not, inf. in the guard house. .. . "''5 can't run away, boys!" he shouted. ' Tnere's women ar.d children 1. ere. Let's be Scotsmen." t ,..?.:t.ut:5 throurh that mass of men. he led them back on the double. f 'cuid thit one end of the married quarters had falk-n in and rest v;s collapsing. Women and children who had escaped were eg frar."ci"y at the debris to reach those who had been trapped. '"-5-s v.-c-r.: to work more systematically and soon had a truck t l c.-.uuren. Eiil Bonce grabbed a baby from under a pile of IS2 ni f.rced it into the trerr.biir.j arms of a girl. Then he realized Z ?,;s asi saw the back of the sl.ull was crushed. Oil says he must have gone a little "on" at that discovery. Jut he begun working his way into the wreckage to reach those .,, fcose screams of pain and fear made a nightmare of the morn-- morn-- ? From beneath a heap of bricks he saw a pair of men's Xs'.s anj a hand that moved feebly. As he slepped into the room lie wcole world seemed to fall on him and everything went black. Slate Roof Was Coming Down on Ilim. r he came to, E:I1 was on his back, his legs pinned between two ' V-rf03 w'"ich was heaped a ton of bricks. Struggle how he would. Bill ! ir-'A free his legs. Then, as he lay ar.d looked up, he got the shock r life. 'r'-'-''y direc;-!' over his head, hung half the slate roof that was held "t.-.'Jofeth that had become wedged at a key point, but was SLOW--CKLI-NG. The mass was already stirring and dust trickled onto "": ',JrnetJ face. Bill raised up and began tearing like a madman at '- i1 tearn that held him prisoner, shouting himself hoarse for help. ''-' pn-au3ted, the dust-covered man lay back, waiting for the end. y e fain'ed. Anyway, Bill says, it was as in a dream he - IU woman's voice: "Praise be to the saint3, he's here! See the "':J".e,s,.aC!l crr-'v-'n on bis sleeve. Here, Katie, get hold of this beam and "- only thinS holding him down." . y s'rc,nS w-oman and a husky girl in her teens heaved and Vrj- .f-'1 the7 had that top beam to one side. Then their strong fin-a;ched fin-a;ched the collar of Bill's coat and pulled him outside. And only n;ck cf time, for, with a great roar and a blinding cloud of dust, came down. 'u They Thought He Was Their Dinny I K'iin unabIe to stand. The two women supported him, all three y J fry.m the choking dust, and mother and daughter took turns yy frantically. And then, heaven preserve us, mother and aKnn'eallZed the man they had saved rom certain death was not 'LLtrea110 WeFe yoU lookin& for?" Bill gasped. The woman med at the sound of his voice, the more practical daughter thiCk coatinS of dust from his face. "Company Ser-;s3 Ser-;s3 ;.. jor 'nara," she answered. "He was off duty this morn-KWasn'' morn-KWasn'' he in there?" "Het y $h00k h'S head' He did not have the coura2e to tcl1 them hen W,boots and the feebly moving hand. For, whatever life that S ' j th" Jheburied Company Sergeant-Major O'Hara had been crushed '-..the 6 mg roof- Bill had been pinned down in O'Hara's room. -' (0'H0Wn and striPes were worn by both a company sergeant-.. sergeant-.. ;i ara) anJ a company quartermaster-sergeant (Bill). " ty -e Iia3 not long in learning what had knocked over the battalion "yy 80 many tQy soldiers. A ship loaded with high explosives 4-"u'il WD 3 coI!ision in the harbor and had been blown to bits, causing p arve and started fires that destroyed one-third of the city of y of rr"3' There were 1,226 dead and 400 more were missing. There 1 aJi"6, thc"Jsands and thousands injured, and Bill was irame- ffji'11ler ltfteuntldDartrnOUth h0Spital or duty' Things he SaW theFe &-WNU Service. |