New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-25
THE ACCIDENT ON TIE PHILADLLFHIh
THE RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION IN ONE OF THE
guns OF TINT CEuisER-THE VESSEL
COMING TO NEw.YoRK 10 TAKE PART
~ rIrr' NAVAL PARADE.


Aeuror, sent "a (spcclal.-Thc cruiser Phlla'
dcpNia is now here and yesterday she took the h"ou'
r,eud Naval Militia out,id for target Isacico To-
d. ,hc milf, have been given Instruction IN man
ming ard cqupplng boat. and Tn boat drilI io"''''
there will be instruction IN the various systems y.
Signalling nag Very and the ArdoIS ele'tlc-"""
in battalion drill AMER the eXertiscs are com
plcted tho ship Will rc'urn 70 Ne~>ork 70 prepare
for the Saval parade IN the Columbus c"lebrau"h
C,,,,n pnrher's orders are To report to Commodore
Henry Erbcn comnandant Of the New YORK Navy
Ward with the understanding thai she II to bc u"
flagship OF Commodore Erhen during THE columbus
celebrations. ~
An officer Of the Philadelphia said TO-DAY p: I'VE
haven't ceased talking Of the explosion winch o.
Cured 70 the Ginch gun during the shih DOM
Larimcrt Of For, McIIcnry 1T Baltimore on satur
day last II came near resulting d'astrousY ana
when the sparks got into the magazine. all except
INC one pucky Young fellow, named EllcrS, ran Tor
their lives lie stack 70 his post and managed 10
rut on, the burning taIpaulln before the hrclo
reached the magazine II was caused by the pI'nia
,ure cxplos on OF "A charge of powder weighing 'hrV
three hounds and injured. more or less Seriously
ruuior Lieutenant Albert a. Alderman. the ohoer
in ,.rco of tho gun: Martin Fettlng captain Of the
r,n. g. Y. Baker and +. T.. Crossman, naval APP
,rcn,Ices The fact Of the matter II. the accident
ought not 70 have happened. and would not II niue
q tc. Judgment had been exercised aboht tln gun"
,lty OF TIE powder charge. Thlr'y-thrce pouhuN Oh
slow burning powder Is large charge for oalA
car,r dge and many OF the grains were not cOhpiecV
burncd-tlry couldn't be- The result was that some
was left In the gun, the breech was not s"aopc'
ON, and as soon a. the new charge was Inserted
n oxpoicd And IA tho bIeech had not been closed
a vent ho;b WAYS. @. the three men injured, ret
tiug the captain OF the gun and Baker, an appreh'
flee who was loading. thought to be dangerously
while eros man. another apprentice, Is not seriously
rurt They were transferred 10 the Naval Hospital
it Norfolk Oh sunday Lieutenant Ackcrmah' VINO
was burned about the FACE and hands escaped without
serious injury though 1t will b. several days before
he can return TO duty When the charge exploded IL
emitted the tarpauD covering hatch In tc rear Of the
gun. portions Of it railing down into tile magazine
Immediately beneath. But for the cooine's OF inc
man mentioned EIlers. tho result might have been
disastrous In the extreme
Samau apprentice Charles Y. Baker. who was one
of the injured lived Oh Hartford ave. Baltimore. with
his mother before he entered the Navy lie Is about
nineteen wears OF age, and his father WAS itrolah
John " Baker. OF the Baltimore police.
From the disappointment expressed by some oi
the officers Of the Naval War College here the con
clu-on might b. that the present course mas proven
failure or as one OF the Officers remarked Con'
modore Ramsay, who Is said TO be opposed to ING
whole scheme aud more III n xSr 'If The orpeso
school and wnr college into one INSTITUTION can no"
one trouble is that the plan Of having some Of
the warshps here fell through because so many were
ordered to venezuela and to the ,So, Banof" o,y ana
few officers to attend the lectlUcs. when the Chi
cago left here two weeks ago she took more than
middle Of a lecture Assistant Secretary soey has
tried hard TO make the college success put IL Is
rep ana ' because all his plans to lave ships here
m,scarned In one way or another. me college
building sgSS one ed ers o attend the
hui for the president and his assistant