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DEATH OF DR. C. L. BARD

Native of Chambersburg Was Prominent
in California.

[Special Dispath to the Baltimore Sun.]

VENTURA, CAL., April 20. - In the Elizabeth
Bard Memorial Hospital erected by
United States SEnator Bard and Dr. Cephas
L. Bard, the latter passed away this morning
at 2 o'clock, aged 59 years. Dr. Bard
was scarcely less prominent in Ventura
than his brother, and had the distinction
of being the first American physician to
locate here in 1868.

He was born in Chambersburg, Pa.. April
7, 1843, son of Robert M. Bard, for many
years he was a leader of the Franklin
County (Pa.) bar, and at one time a candidate
for Congress. Previous to the Revolution
the progenitors of the Bard family
came to America, settling in Franklin
county, Pa., when the colony was in its
infancy. One Dr. Bard was General Washington's
physician, and Col. Robert Parker,
Dr. C. L. Bard's maternal great-grand-father
was a colonel under Washington,
and from him received special recognition
for gallant service.

Word was sent to United States Senator
Bard of his brother's critical illness and
he left Washington on Saturday afternoon
for Ventura. Dr. Bard was the first patient
to die in the hospital.

KEROSENE IN "WATER CURE"

Soldiers Say Cocoanut Oil Was Administered
At Times.

[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. - The horrors
of the tortures inflicted by American soldiers
to extort confessions from Fillipino
prisoners accumulate with investigation.

The "water cure," it is learned from soldiers,
was used with variations calculated
to increase the agonies of the victim. Sometimes
kerosene of cocoanut oil was substituted
for water. Here is the statement of
W. H. Clark, a returned soldier of the
Eighteenth Infantry:

"The water cure hs been administered
to thousands of natives in the Philippines,
at least in Panay. We did not do it in the
spirit of malevolence, but the water cure
is the surest remedy for non-communicativeness
and mendacity which has yet ben
discovered in the Phillippines. That is
probably a relic of the Spanish Inquisition."

Of the effect upon the subject Clark says
"Well, they usually get sick and some
of them never recover from their sickness.
Of course we never torture any
Filipinos to death, but the only way to
get along with them is to administer the
water cure."

Fire Destroys Fifty Homes.

KANSAS CITY, MO., April 20. - Fire in the
southwestern part of the city today destroyed
a section of dwelling houses almost
a quarter of a mile long and a block
wide. John Stinne, a spectator, was seriously
injured by a falling piece of iron and
Edward Bennet, a fireman, was overcome
by heart. About 50 dwelling houses were
destroyed and 60 or more families were
rendered homeless.