The herald., 1898-11-28
Walked From Sleep to Face Death
in Awful Guise
SIX FATALLY, MANY BADLY SCALDfD
The Steam Drum Of the River Steamer l. {. Walker
Explodes With Most Dreadful Efects-Scenes OF
Suffering and Acts Of Herosm
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
STOCKTON, Nov. H.-The most disas'
trous river accident in the history OF Stock
ton occurred this morning at APO O'Clock
near Fourteen Mile slough, when part et
one of the boilers of the river steamer L. Z.
Walker, which left San Francisco at o
o'clock last night, was blown out, killing
six and dangerously wounding ten persons,
while probably fifteen or twenty Others were
more or less badly hurt.
The T. C. Walker is owned by the Call
fornia Navigation and Improvement COM
many. and ran between San Francisco and
Stockton.
THE DEAD
CAPTAIN JOHN TULAN Of the T. c.
Walker.
w. A. BLUNT, the agent in charge OF the
shippina of 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 DALEY, fireman.
FERDINAND LAW, passenger, OF Se-
attle.
WOUNDED
GEORGE P. SMITH, native of Massa-
chusetts, burned about the face and body
and injured in the kidneys.
JAMES CORCORAN, deck hand, will
probably die.
JACK HOLBERG, known as Jack Sperry.
watchman, injured in head and scalded over
entire upper portion of the body.
CORATTI DOMINICA, deck hand, scald-
ed about hands and face and back injured.
JOHN BURNS, deck hand, slightly
buried about the head
N. G. FOPPIANNO Of San Francisco,
passenger, injured in the face and breast.
EDWARD PAUL JONES, stevedore,
scalded about face and hands.
MARTIN FCAFFREY of San Francisco,
deck hand burned about head and body.
LOUIS BRIZZOLANA Of San francisco,
.--s-rinn- -,i.nrchani- badly in inred -----------
ROUSED FROM SLEEP
The majority of the passengers were in
bed when the explosion occurred and were
awakened by the report, which was as loud
as cannon's roar. People rushed from
their rooms in their night clothes and
found the whole forward part of the steam
cr's upper works blown away. The cleo
trio lights had been put out and the escaping
steam enveloped the front portion of the
boat till it was impossible to see how much
of the boat had been carried away.
The screams of the men who were locked
in their rooms near the pilot house were
heartrending. Captain John Tulan had
been blown from his bed agains. the door
of the state room and so seriously injured
that he could not move. The door could
not be forced open, as he was jammed up
against it. One of the employees Of the
boat secured an axe and cut the upper part
of the room away and finally removed him,
but not until he was virtually roasted alive.
When pulled out the flesh dropped from his
bones in large pieces, and although he was
suffering excruciatingly, he bore it bravely,
and not groan escaped him after he was
taken out of the steam.
Watson H. Henry, the chief engineer, and
his wife, were in their room near the pilot
house when the explosion occurred.
HOW OTHERS DIED
Mrs. Henry was blown through the roof.
The flooring was blown upward and she
was hurled with great violence a distance
of fully twenty feet toward the bottom of
the boat. She was horribly crushed by the
force of the explosion and also badly scalded
by escaping steam. Her injuries proved
fatal at 1890 this afternoon She retained
consciousness until a few moments before
her death. Her suffering was sol intense
that she begged the physicians in attend
ance to end her life, but all that could be
done was to deaden the pain BY the use of
narcotics.
Mr.. Henry was terribly scalded. He was
thrown some distance away, but not so far
as his wife. He died shortly after being
brought to this city,
w. A. Blunt was instantly killed. He
was standing on the lower deck, as he in
tended making landing short distance
above the place where the explosion oc-
Cured.
Jerry Daley, the fireman, was in the fire
hole of the boat when the accident occurred.
The escaping steam completely enveloped
him, scarcely portion of his body escaping
the soaring vapor. He died at the receiv-
ing hospital at 12:45 this afternoon. He
had been in the employ of the California
Navigation & Improvement company for
hbout fourteen years.
Underneath the lower deck, where the
deckhands sleep, the groans and screams
were heartrending, for the unfortunate i'm.
prisoned men were receiving the full effect
of the steam as it came from the boilers
Eight OF them were almost roasted alive.
Those who were able made their way to
TIE deck as best they could, while the more
Eeriously injured were unable to get out.
Jhe exposed portions Of their bodies suf-
Tered the most The arms and faces of those
near the main entrance were frightfullv
'calded. Corratti Dominick, who was on
the lower deck, was blown into the water
and had to swim ashore after his back was
horribly scalded.
Louis Brizzolara, in company with Chas.
Magginl and wife, was standing near the
pilot house on the texas deck, The force
threw him to one side. but not until he had
been badly burned about the body. For