Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-28
SIX DEAD AND THIRTY HURT
PART OF ONE OF THE STEAMERS
BOILERS BLEW OUT.
Crew and Passengers Terribly Burn.
cd by the Escaping Sicam-In-
jured Persons Suffered Ter
ribly From Their
Burns.

I
! disastrous accident in the history of Stock
| ton occurred to-day near Fourteen Mile
| slough, when part of one of the boilers
| OF the river steamer r. C. Walker, which
| left San Francisco about q o'clock last
night. was blown out, killing six and dan
| gerously wounding eleven persons, while
probably fifteen others were more or less
badly hurt. The T. c. Walker is owned
| by the California Navigation and Improve
ment Company, and ran between San Fran
| cisco and Stockton.
The dead are:
John Tulan. captain of the T. C. Walker
W. A Blunt, the agent in charge of the
shipping Of sugar beets from the Moss
| tract TO the Crockett factory.
watson Henry. of Stockton, engineer or
the I. c. Walker
Mrs. Watson Henry, wife OF the chief
engineer.
Jerry DAILY, fireman.
Ferdinand Law, passenger
The wounded are:
George 2. Smith, of Massachusetts, deck
mana. burned about the face and body;
James Corcoran, deck hard, will probably
ole; Jack Holberg, known as Jack Sperry,
Waterman, injured in head and scalded over
entlre upper part of body; Coratti Domin-
lci, deck hand, scalded about hands and
race and back injured; John Burns, deck
i,anu' burned about head; G. Foppianno, OF
San. Francisco, passenger. injured in the
lace ana breast; Edward Paul Jones, steve
dore scalded about face and hands; Mar
I'm McCafrey, of San Francisco, deck
mana, burned about the head and body;
LOUIS Brlzzolana. of San Francisco. wine
tterchant, badly injured; Jonn Ffgoni, of
stockton' Geek hand, head cut and back
hurt.
Inc majority of the passengers were in
oeo 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 colthes. and
found the whole forward portion of The
steamers upper works blown away The
electric nights had been put out, and the
escaping steam enveloped the front portion
Oh the boat till it was impossible to see how
much OF the boat had been carried away
Ihe screams of the men who were locked
IN thear rooms near the pilot house were
heart rending. Captain John Tulan Ilad
peen blown from his bed against 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 1t. One of the employees of the boat
secured an ak and cut the upper part OF
tne t door away and finally removed him,
alive. When pulled out, the flesh dropped
from his bones in large pieces; but. al
thnough hag he was suffering sxcruciatingly he
MN as he was taken out Of the steam.
watson Henry, the chief engineer. and
his wiie were in their room near the pilot
Henry was blown through the roof. The
flooring was blown upward and she was
furled distance. Of twenty feet toward
crushed and also badly scalded with es-
Gaping steam. Her injuries proved fatal
at R;3o this afternoon. She remained ur-
a four tDprr
Geath Her suffering was so intense that
che begged the physicians in attendance
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
fsr thrown som some distance away, but not as
after being brought to this city
>, Mr. NIB, Blunt was instantly killed. He was
standing nnt t;nn on the lower deck. as he intend
above the place where the explosion oc-
Jerry DAILY, the fireman, was in the fire.
hold Of the steamer when the accident oc-
CURED The escaping steam completely
SnGs SSnGGsioped pec,In MIN scarcely portion of his
afternoon. >''''
undernsath the lower deck, where the
terrible. for the unfortunate imprisoned
men We're receiving the full force of the
steam as i. came from the boilers Eight
of them were almost roasted alive. Those
who were able made their way to the dscS
as ,, best they could while the more seriously
ana races OF those near the main entrance
were frightfully scalded. Dominica. who
was on the lower deck. was blown into the
back was horribly scalded.
louis Louis IBriZzolana, in company with
near the pilot house on the Texas deck.
The force threw him to one side but not
until he was badly burned about the body.
n a nd iS ifa
a scratch.
About an hour after the explosion the
passenger steamer Dauntless, coming from |
San Francisco. hove in sight. She rendered |
immediate assistance. and all the wounded |
and uninjured were taken aboard A tele- |
phone message was sent to this city and !
tie steamer Clara Crow, with several ply |
sicians and medicines, etc. was sent TO |
aid the Dauntless. The relief boat met the |
Dauntless short distance down the river |
and the physicians were quickly taken on |
board.
One of the remarkable escapes was that |
of Captain Henry Potvine. who was at |
the wheel of the Walker when the eXplo- |
sin occurred. The pilot house was torn |
away, but he was not dangerously injured. |
limbs.
At o'clock last night the Walker ran
into mud bank near Benicia Shortly
John YOrke and his wife, passengers.
heard noise, which they supposed to be
escaping steam. No attention was paid to
it, however.
What caused the explosion will probably
never be known. The steam drum burst
Win WIN, terrible violence. 1t had split COM
whole sheet turned outward.
The four walls of the engine room were
demolished by the force of the explosion.
The lower deck. hurricane deck and
Texas deck were wrecked in the portion
directly over the engine room. The direc-
ton of the flying debris was upward and
outward. toward the bow. If it had been
the other way the loss of life would have
been much greater. The forward doors
mense concourse of people met the Walk
er. which was towed in at 1870 p. m The
property loss will not exceed 200O
At $50 p: m. report from the hospital
says that G. Foppoanno will probably die.
Jack HolberS IS reported in precarious |
With ba |