Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-08-03
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
THE NEW YORK EXPLOSION.
The Inque>t-More Victims.


NEW YORK, August 3.-Coroner keenan, has
empanne2ed a jury on the westheld disaster,
which meets next Wednesday.
Bernard Gillespie has been missing since Mon
day. Ii il believed he was on the westfield
Herman and Amelia Kranz, residents of New
York, are also missing, and are supposed 20 be
Westtield disaster, died in Brooklyn yesterday.
ANOTHER VICTIM.
NEW YORK, August 3.-Timothy Buckley, q
victim OF the Westheld disaster, died to-day.
The OliciaI Investigation Continued.
NEw YORK, August S.-The official investiga-
ton over the victims of the Westield disaster
Was continued this morning.
Julius Raynor, passenger, testified that two
nremen were not in the fire room at the time of
not on board.
Henry Robinson. the engineer, was sworn
Left Staten Island at half-pa II; came into the
New York slip; the engine bell rang; all done;
went out and put the hose on the tanks aud
went on the deck to straighten them; went back
TO the engine room and saw there q pounds;
went out; the fireman shut of the water; then
saw the fireman come out of the fire room, and
asked him if all was right; he said Eyes," then
walked slowly of towards TIE bow, and saw the
captain with his hand on the wheel; then re-
turned toward the engine room, and when within
ten or fifteen feet heard an explosion; i rushed
for the engine room, and stopped and lifted up a
trap, when fireman came up, 50 badly injured
that he died Immediately; was not absent four
minutes after noticing the Y pounds on
the gauge; don't know whether the gauge
was correct or not; when there was
no steam on, the gauge would sometimes
stand at 2, and others at zero; marked - and %
pounds of steam on the way up; generally use
from 70 TO z pounds of steam; the valve was set
at q, so as TO give the steam a chance To blow
on, and keep IL at 25; when the gauge showed u
In the slip, the safety valve was Just simmering
the water in the tanks is sometime boiling; the
valve Is five inches; couldn't tell the square of
i've, or the difference between high and low
pressure; there were sometimes little pinhole
leaks in the engine, and there was a patch on
the saddle, put on last fall which was blown off
at the explosion. Robinson stated that he could
neither read nor write, though on four occasions
he passed examinations as an engineer; he was
ordered not TO get up steam as to make too
much noise, but was never forbidden TO blow
lest he should brighten the passengers; If he had
a very high pressure, and the Superintendent
was on board he would ask leave 70 blow;
otherwise he would lift the valve himself
VIM. A. LightfoOd, commissioned by the su-
pervlsing inspector 10 examine the engine, said
he discovered an eighteen-inch rent between
the upper and lower hues, port side, where il
couldn't be seen, and could scarcely be touched.
This must have existed some time. Otherwise
the engine was as good ever. The rend did not
go right through the sheet, but was covered on
the outside by good iron. 1t ought TO have been
thirty pounds. The attachments Of the gauge
were not as he would have them. The valve
was oxydiZed, and in a state that would bear
sixty pounds without blowing. The accident
was caused by over-pressure, and was not an e1-
plosion, but rupture.