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ightHealthpage one) r to a putiua-Arllngton na-t was Informed today • by tele-aat. JJ. M„ farm lied early thisTroops Enter Shelled Area To Hunt Deadwill be prrang-i the wish of-jrmer secretary' itlrement fromrsonallv to Ar-for his grave, d later was re-; be given over ;liam Jennirps nearby will behat Mr. Weeks’• here until' auly 12.—(AP.) •cretary under Coolldge, died iome, Mountitandard time, ame from ah-wed a longut regaining coma intoarly Sunday Us eon. Sln-Washington were at his ne. Through-ing they had at he would them a fare-h had grown It and soon of hours.into the of Whitfield. *. Weeks, ad-famlly thatexpectation rretary could,he death was; d Press by Mr. re 6 o'clock.rew from re-,f the war de-rll 19 25 when h thrombosis, .o his resigna-r. His condi-*ave, bur im-y 2S, he was| operation in a emoval of sail slowly from secretary re-it. jhis associates j e him return j(Continued from paw on^» ' (Mated ouidltloii of the bodlw. The work was carried uu during the flopping of small ai«-inutiition.DOVER. X. J.* July 12.— . (AP)—Fire Hind barrages of exploding shell# today were preventing a complete check of (he loll of the warlike death and havoc wrought In peace time when lightning turned the navy’s largest am-munition dc|Ktf (hat at Lake Denmark, 33 miles west of Jersey City, to blow up Saturday afternoon. Ten persons arc known to have been killed. Three bodies had . been recovered and Identified, seven other bodies lutd lcen seen In the debris. Thirty three persons. mostly marines, had been listed as missing.Damage was estimated at $100,000,000 by umiy andnavy officials on the scene. For a radius of 30 miles houses were shaken and aulo-* mobiles overturned on the highways. Shells, smoke ami fire checked the entrance of investigators and hampered relief work lor hundreds of civilians in a peace time no-man's (and.The depot covered more than 300 acres. During the war t! was extended by the erection of 183 buildings. The depot was a storage place where ammunition and supplies were receive and forwarded to other points upon demand.I.lightning Started FirjFlames started when lightning struck a T. X'. T. magazine. Some 200 buildings were cniolished within the reservation limits and danger from further bombardments continued today as new ammunition storehouses were menaced- Many other reservation buildings were damaged.The identified dead were lieutenant George W. Botts, Richmond Va.: Harry C. Brown, pharmacist. Poughkeepsie. X. V.. and- Mrs. Francis Feeney of Brooklyn, a visitor at the plant.Among those known to be missing were:Lieut-Commander Edward AllenBrowdne, appointed from Massachusetts; Captain Burwell Hayden Clarke, appointed from Little Rock, Ark.: Lieutenant Herman Conrad Schrader, appointed from New York: Chief Gunner Joseph»r department 1 rifZ •rtixsrtlA 1byvasidlt;'Iabcthefromaqusthe0limedoth«wasitsavocauXbuilwerandedancall Ev. cru A : Iroi hur 1 .
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Danville Bee
Danville, Virginia, US
Mon, Jul 12, 1926
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