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THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The following Is an official report Of the
lives lost, 50 lar as known Inst evening" from
the explosion On the European:
Known to be killed on ship: Capt. Cole,
Mr. Glasa, chief officer; Mr. Pafson, second
officer; DR.. Burrows, surgeon; Edward
Davis, carpenter; W. Pritchard, sailor; j.
4. Young, sailor; ". Beremond, aailor, md
Richard, cabin boy.
Also, missing from ship, twelve. Killed on
shore: Sir, Caiyo, Mr. Swanson and nineteen
Others
Total killed aud missing, forty-two. The
Mber OF missing from shore has not been
definitely asccstainea-
THE EXPLOSION ~ SAN FRANCISCO.
From The N. r. Tribune. april ELI
In the United States Commissioners Office,
yesterday, before Commissioner Be.t5, the
United States agent, Otto Burstenbender. the
terrible accident which occurred recently In
San Francisco BY the explosion OF q barrel Of
nitrc-e1yccrinc. otherwise known as Sabeps
blasting oil which had been delivered for trans
portation TO Wells, Fargo j. Co., without do
eIas4ng It's nature. hns led to the present GRIM
iEa1 GrosasdiDG under the United States stat.
uix ra4atdsK al Explosive hEpinr flaids an
ealee paeAsd and distinctly marked OF the
u. A;as ltk tie Enua a2d aS,criptiot u
). attie;a., csa k'akassi! mudsas.A.or e
rrek er .liI /. w:tleHi srch marking.
&. T. N,Sdlshresk, the tally ~: n the
freight lcpariReM OF WeI1l, sle.e 4 { e.,
and whose duty It Is to take an acc nj ., ali
freight that arrives, testified that .ew days
before the sailing OF the New York "a vessel
carrying passengers as well as tret3ht) boz
was brought to the Companies office marked
wv Fl. Mills, Los Angeles, Fast !" he pro-
duced receipt for Its delivery at the pier
this receipt Is given to the parties who bring
goods, who get bill Of lading on surrender
Ing II at the Office; Il this had been shown
me I should have Inquired what kind OF oil 1t
was, as We reject al on Of explosive quail
ties; If It had been whale oil carefully put up
we should have received It; Wells, Fargo &
Co. condnct the entire freight business Of the
Steamship Co., and they restrict ns from car
ryfug explosive articles; l remember the bog;
it was q wooden box about eighteen Inches
square, and four feet high 1t could not 70
into state~room; the fast freight Is. put on
board last, that box, therefore, remained By
door sese1 esyf an satssa isnsa that ne
ii it had been marked Nitro-Glyccrine 1
would not hare carried It ; +" Fast means to
60 right through with freight and passengers;
Other ire.ght remasns ten days at the Isthnus.
at. John ", Adro1,, Superintendent Of the
freight department u Wells & Fargo's office,
freight, that If It had beeh 1aasked iii Ie
shotid have inquired and refuscd IL. he
should have refused sperm oil In nine h,I.
he was familiar with the prern1ses in San
Fraucisco, where the explosion occurred tbe
steamer lands one % anu a.sf q nai, miles oH; Ae
Re 10 sead 1t TO the office foz = survey; nv in
fornatinn Is that be 1lu 81 e--a tLf. and ~
nther box {or examination they we're placss
in The warehouse be sent over ioe Harris,
the steamship clerk, to come with htnNto eI-
anime 1t they went INTO tne Wesenooae aud
the ). Il thing was the explosion our igeut