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arriving early this morning and going at once to Pasadena, where the Win- 

 ston family was notified. A party of friends of the dead man started at 

 once for the lyittle Rock Creek Canyon, and will bring back the remains as 

 soon as possible." * 



On Tuesday morning, August i6, about eight o'clock, policeman A. O. 

 Bristol was informed by Ernest Meiggs of East Los Angeles that he had 

 found Winston's body, and had come to report the matter. Bristol at once 

 went with him to the residence of W. S. Wright, Esq., and Mrs. Winston 

 with the information. And by noon train Mr. Wright, Mr. Meiggs and 

 Peter Steil started to recover and bring in the body. They had to go by 

 S. P. Railroad to Palmdale, thence by team twenty-two miles to Pallette 

 ranch on the north side of the mountains, thence by pack mules about 

 twenty miles up Rock Creek Canyon. The spot where the body lay was five 

 or six miles from the camp that Winston had started from, when he got be- 

 wildered and lost in the snow storm ; and it is likely that some of the 

 search parties sent out eight or nine months before had passed within fifty 

 yards of the body without discovering it. August 20, Messrs. Wright and 

 Steil returned to Pasadena with the remains. August 21, Coroner Cates 

 held an inquest, with the following jurymen : Ed. lyockett, Thos. Banbury, 

 Samuel Weight, E. A. Mote, B. A. Sparks, Thos. Grimes, Geo. Swerdfiger, 

 S. O. McGrew, and G. W. Benedict, foreman. In his testimony before the 

 jury, W. S. Wright said : "The range on which the body was found is es- 

 timated to be next highest to Baldy in the Sierra Madre range. It is two 

 or three miles north of Waterman range, and is in section 18, township 3, 

 north, of range 10 west." They buili a cairn or monument of stones to 

 mark the place, and named it Winston mountain. 



Mr. Winston had long been an honored member of the Ancient Order 

 of United Workmen, and they conducted his burial. They also paid his 

 life certificate of $2,000 to his widow. 



WINERY TANK EXPLOSION. 



October 8, 1894, occurred at Lamada Park one of the most horrible catas- 

 trophes that fall within the province of this history to record. Workmen 

 were engaged at re-arranging some old and putting in some new apparatus 

 at the winery there. The manager, Albert Brigden, was standing on an 

 old tank, three of which had just been newly placed, testing a stop-cock 

 while the engineer was letting in steam. Adam Schumann, the company's 

 cooper, had warned Brigden that those tanks were not safe ; but he insisted 

 that they were all right, and must be tested to adjust the gauge points for 

 the uses they were to serve. So both men were on the tanks at four o'clock 

 p. m. when the explosion occurred. The Los Angeles Times report of the 

 event said : 



" Brigden and Schumann were upon a platform over a series of three 

 large wooden casks, or tanks, used in the process of distilling, situated in a 



