Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-06-22
SICKENING SIGHTS.
A Series of Accidents on a New
French Cruiser.
MANY MEN FATALLY s0ALDED.

The Vessel Was Making a Trial OF
Her Machinery When n Terrible
Explosion Occurred, Leaving the
Engineers aud Stokcrs Writing
In Agony.
BREsT, June ga terrible accident
occurred ON board the new French
cruiser Dupuy de LONE, $500 tons Or
ders had been given for tue vessel DO
make trial of her machinery.and while
this trial was in progress the end Of one
Of the boilers was blown out.
The fire room immediately BECAME
filled with scalding steam and a sulphur
Gus smoke, caused blythe water reaching
and extinguishing the fire under the
boiler. To make the situation worse
the electric lights went cut and the fire
room was left in darkness. an the fur
mace doors being closed.
The engineers who were In the fire
room at the time, and the stOkeB were
unable to escape until the chief en-
gineer and an outsider rushed down the
fire room ladder and broke open the
door of the compartment
A Sickcning Sight.
Then most horrible and dckeniug
sight presented itsek. Men were lying
on tho deck deliriOus from the agony
caused by the terrible injuries they had
sustained. Some were writing in con-
WILSON'S, their blackened and distorted
faces and fearfully blistcred bodies,
arms and legs presenting sight at once
slckening and heartrending. Several of
the men in their torture had hitten
n Il. a
had attacked their equally unfortunate
companions and bitten them. In some
cases men were heaped together in
struggling, writing masses, and IL re-
quired considerable effort TO separate
them.
The deck of the fire room was covered
with scalding water from the exploded
boiler to the depth OF two or three
inches and in this the injured men lay,
every second adding TO the terrible
scalding they had received.
Efforts We're at once made to get the
men ont of the fire room, bat this task
was rendered difficult through the fact
that they were absolutely crazy with
pain and attacked their would be res
cuers with their hands, feet and teeth,
in some cases infiicting quite severe in-
Jurios. The hot water also added to the
difficulty of removing the men and
finally 1t was found necessary to grasp
them in any way and drag them out.
Many Dying.
Fifteen of them were dying when they
were taken to the ships hospital, and
number of others will undoubtedly die
i'm very short time. IL is believed that
besides their external injuries nearly all
of them inhaled steam, and this alone
would be sufficient to cause death.
At the very time the end of the boiler
blew out an explosion occurred in the
coal bunkers and set the cruiser on fire.
The crew werc at once summoned to
fire quarters and hose were laid TO the
bunkers The donkey engines were
started. and soon the fire was got under
control.
The two accidents caused some breach
in the usual man-of-war discipline, and
some of the officers appeared to have
lost their heads.
; While nearly everybody on board the
cruiser was attempting to rescue the in
Jured in the fire room or fighting the
fire in the bunkers the quartermasters
reported that they could not handle the
ship.
An investigation was made, when it
was found that the steering apparatus
had been broken down. The cruiser was
perfectly helpless and signals were
hoisted asking for assistance. She was
finally brought hack 10 her moorings.
The naval authorities viii make a most
searching investigation into the acct
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