Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-11-28

dangerously wounding II persons.
while probably 10 or 20 were more or
less badly hurt. The T. G. Walker ran
between San Francisco and Stockton.
The dead were:
John Tulan, captain of the I. O..
Walker.
II. a. Blunt, the agent III charse OF
shipping sugar beets from the Moss
tract to the Crockett factory.
Watson Henry of Stockton, engineer
of the T. G. Walker.
Mrs. Watson Henry, wife of the chief
engineer.
Jerry DAILY, fireman.
Ferdinand Law, passenger.
The wounded were:
George p. Smith, q native of Massa-
chusetts, deckhand, burned about the
face and body.
James Corcoran, deckhand, will prob
ably die.
Jack Holberg, known as Jack Sperry,
Waterman, injured IN head and scaIded
over entire upper part of the body.
Coratti Dominica, deckhand, scalded
about the hands and face and back in
jured.
John Burns, deckhand, burned about
head.
G. Foppiano of San Francisco, pas
senger. injured In the face and breast.
Edward Paul Jones, stevedore, scald-
ed about face and hands.
Martin Mccartney of San Francisco,
deckhand. burned about the head and
body.
Louis Brizzolanan of San Francisco,
wine merchant, badly injured.
John Figoni of Stockton, deckhand,
head cut and back hurt
The Walker ran into a mud bank
near Benicla. Shortly after the steamer
had been gotten off, John Yorke and his
wife, passengers, heard a noise which
they supposed to be the escaping steam.
No attention was paid to it, however
What caused the explosion will prob
ably never be known. The steam drum
burst with terrible violence
The majority of the passengers were
in bed when the explosion occurred.
People rushed from their rooms in their
nightclorhes aud found the whole for
ward portion of the steamers upper
works blown away. The electric lights
had been put out and the escaping
steam enveloped the front portion Of
the boat.
The screams of the men who were
locked i'll their rooms near the pilot
house were heartrending. Captain John
Tulan had been blown from his bed
against the door of the stateroom and
so seriously injured that he could not
move. The door was cut open with an
ak, but not until he was virtually
roasted alive.
Watson Henry, the chief engineer,
and his wife were in their room near
the pilothouse. Mrs. Henry was blown
through the roof. She was horribly
crushed by the fury of the explosion,
and also badly scalded with escaping
steam. Her injuries proved fatal. She
begged the doctors to kill her before
dying.
Mr.. Henry was terribly scalded. He
was thrown some distance away, but not
as far as was his wife. He died shortly
after being brought to the city.
Mr.. Blunt was instantly killed. He
intended making a landing short dis
lance above the place where the explo-
sion occurred.
Jerry DAILY, the fireman, was in the
fire hold of the boat. The escaping
steam completely enveloped him. He
died at the receiving hospital.
Underneath the lower deck, where
the deckhands slept, groans and screams
were terrible. for the unfortunate i'm
prisoned men were receiving the full
force of steam as it came from the boil
ers. Eight.of them were almost roasted
alive. Those who were able made their
way to the deck as best they could,
while the more seriously injured were
unable to get out. Dominica who was
on the lower deck, was blown into the
water and had TO SWIM ashore after his
back was horribly scalded
j.Dout an hour after the explosion the
passenger steamer Dauntless, coming
FROM San Francisco, rendered assist.
ance and all the wounded and injured
were taken aboard. A telephone mes
sage was sent to this city and the
steamer Clara Grow, With several ply
sicians with medicines, etc., were sent
to aid the Dauntless. The relief boat
met the Dauntless short distance down
the river and the physicians were quick
ly taken on board.
Areport from the hospital says that
G. Fonpiano will probably die. Jack
HClberg was reported in q precarious
condition. With the exception of these
two men no further fatalities are antici-
pated.
~. +. Conference to Chicago.
CHICAGO. Nov. 28.--Chicago will en-.
terrain the Methodist general confer
ence Of 1900. John Farson, one of the
members Of the conference committee
Of the Social union, the local society Of
the denomination, received q telegram
from Dr.. Henry Spellmeyer, chairman
OF tho general committee. asking him
TO arrange q meeting between the So
cial union committee Of 10 and the gen.
eral committee for next Wednesday to
make the arrangements which will fix