The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-28

Stockton, Cal, Nov. 27-The most
disastrous accident in the history OF
| Stockton occurred this morning at 4:3O,
near Fourteen Mile Slough, when a
part of one of the boilers of the river
steamer T. C. Walker, which left San
Francisco at 6 o'clock last night, was
blown out, killing six and dangerously
wounding eleven persons, while prob
ably fifteen or twenty others were
more or less badly hurt The T. c.
| Walker is owned by the California
| Navigation & Improvement company,
and ran between San Francisco and
I Stockton.
The dead-John Tulan, captain of the
T. C. Walker; w. A. Blunt, the agent
in charge of shipping of sugar beets
from the Moss tract to the Crockett
factory; Watson Henry of Stockton,
engineer of the 7. c. Walker; Mrs
Watson Henry, wife of the chief en-
niger; Jerry Daley, fireman; Ferdi-
nand Lowe, passenger.
Wounded-George 2. Smith, a ma
tive of Massachusetts, deck hand.
burned about the face and body;
James CorcOran. deck hand will
probably die; Jack Holberg, known as
Jack Sperry watchman, injured in
!
part of body; Coratti Dominica, deck
hand scalded about hands and face,
and back injured; John Burns. deck
hand slightly burned about head; G.
FoDDianno of San Francisco, passen-
ger, injured in the face and breast;
Edward Paul Jones, stevedOre, scalded
about face and hands; Martin McCaf-
frey of San Francisco, deck hand, burn
ed about the head and body: Louis ,
Brizzolana of San Francisco, wine
merchant, badly injured; John FigoEi
of Stockton. deck hand, head cut and
bacL, hurt
The majority of the passengers were
in bed when the explosion occurred,
and We're awakened by the report,
which was as loud as a cannOn's roar.
People rushed from their rooms in their
night clothes, and found the whole
forward portion of the steamers s. upper
works blown away. The electric 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 car
ried away.
CAPTAIN ROASTED ALIVE.
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
against the door of the StaterOOm, and
I
move. The door could not be forced
open, as he was jammed dp against it.
One of the employees of the boat Sc
! cured an ak 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 a grOan escaped him as 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 Oc-
CURED. Mrs. Henry was blown through
the roof. The flooring was blown I'D
wards and she was hurled with great
violence a distance Of fully twenty
feet towards the bow of the boat. She
was horribly crushed by the force Of
the explosion, and also badly scalded
with escaping steam. Her injuries
proved fatal at 1890 this afternoon.
She retained consciousness until a few
moments before her death. Her suf-
fering was so intense that she begged
the physician in attendance to end her
: lie. but all that could be done was to
deaden the pain by the use of narcotics.
5 Mr.. Henry was terribly scalded. He
2 was thrown some distance away, but
= not as far as was his wife. He died
e shortly after being brought to this
e city.
3 w. A. Blunt was Instantly killed He
e was standing on the lower deck. as he
intended making a landing a short
distance above the place where the
explosion occurred.
Jerry Daley, the fireman, was in
the fire hole Of the boat when the ac-
= cident occurred. The escaping steam
completely enveloped him, scarcely a
portion of his body escaping the yapOr.
e He died at the receiving hospital at
: 12:45 this afternoon. He has been in
the employ Of the California Naviga-
= tion e Improvement company for
f about fourteen years.
d DECK HANDS sCALDED.
e Underneath the lower deck. where
: the deck hands slept grOanS and
{ screams were heartrending. The un-
i fortunate imprisoned men We're receiv-
: ing the full effect of the steam as it
. came from the boilers. Eight of them
were almost roasted alive. Those who
a were able made their way to the deck
S as best thew could, while the more
seriously injured were unable to get
out The exposed portions of their
bodies suffered the most The arms
/ and faces of those near the main
0 entrance, were frightfully scalded
- Coratti Dominica, who was on the
= lower deck, was blown into the water
= and had to swim ashore after his back
~ was horribly scalded. Louis Brizzol-
ana, in company with Charles Maggini
!. and wife were standing near the pilot
u house The force threw him to one
: side, but not until he was badly
! burned about the body. Fortunately
y Mr. Maggini and his wife escaped
without so much as a scratch, though
both were thrown down by the con-
-d cussion.
81 The moment the work of rescuing the
sS iSU - " . L le'HS4S IsoD-
ig lnson OF san FRANCISCO, a trained
f nurse, assumed charge and through
in out all the excitement administered tC
n the wants of those who were the worst
IS injured Although only partly dressed
~ she began her noble work. The pas
A. sengers find insufficient words in praise
of the brave woman About an houl