The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-28
SIX FATALLY SCALDED
BY STEAMER EXPLOSION
PART OF ROLLER OF CALIFORNIA
RIVER VESSEL BLOWN OUT
Dive Already Dead and One of the
Injured VIII Not RecOver-Pns-
sengers Were Asleep When the
Accident Occurred.

STOCKTON, Cal, Nov. 27.-The most
disastrous river accident in the his
tory of Stockton occurred today near
Fourteen Mile slough, when a part of
one of the boilers of the river steamer
4 c. Walker, which left San Francis
co about 6 o'clock last night, was
blown out. killing five and dangerous
ly wounding eleven persons, while
probably fifteen or twenty were more
or less badly hurt. The T. c. Walker
was owned by the California Navlga-
tion and Improvement company and
ran between San Francisco and Stock
ton. The dead:
JOHN TULAN, captain OF the T. C. Walker.
w. A. BLUNT, the agent in charge Of ship
ping of sugar from the Moss tract to the
Crockett factory.
WATSON HENRY, of Stockton, engineer of
the T. c. Walker
MRS. WATSON HENRY, wife of the chief
engineer.
JERRY DAILY, fireman.
Wounded: Ferdinand Law, passenger, badly
scalded about face and hands and injured
about the breast; George P. Smith. native
OF Massachusetts, deck hand, burned about
the face and body; James Coreoran. deck
hand. will die; Jack Hoberg, known as Jack
Sperry, Waterman, injured In head and
boalded over entire upper part of the body:
Coratti Dominica, deck hand, scalded about
hands and face and back injured; John
Burns deck hand, burned about head: @.
Foppiano, of San Francisco. passenger, in
jured in the face and breast Edward Paul
Jones. stevedore. scalded about face and
hands; Martin McCaifery, of San Francisco,
deck hand, burned about the head and body;
Louis BrlZzolani of san Francisco. wine mer-
chant, badly injured; John Figoni, Of Stock
ton, deck hand, head cut and back hurt.
AT $3.50 p. m. report from the hos
pital says that c. Franchiponi Will
probably die. Jack Holberg is reported
in precarious condition. With the
exception Of these two men no further
fatalities are anticipated.
The majority of the passengers were
in bed when the explosion occurred
and were awakened by the report.
People rushed from their rooms In
their night clothes and found the
whole forward portion of the steamers
upper works blown away. The electric
lights had been put out and the es-
Gaping steam enveloped the front por-
ton of the bow till it was impossible
TO see how much of the boat had been
carried away.
locked in their rooms near the pilot
house were heartrending. Capt. John
Tulan had been blown from his bed
against the floor of the state room and
so seriously injured that he could not
move. The door could not be forced
open, as ne was damned up against
1t. One of the employees of the boat
secured an AK and cut the upper part
of-the room away and finally removed
him, but not until he was virtually
roasted alive. Watson Henry, the chief
engineer and his wife were in theil
room near the pilot house when the
explosion occurred. Mrs. Henry was
blown through the roof. She was hor-
ribly crushed by the fury OF the ex-
plosion and also badly scalded with
escaping steam, and died this after
noon. Mr.. Henry was terribly scalded
and died shortly after being brought
10 the city. Mr.. Blunt was instantly
killed. He was standing on the lower
deck. as he intended making a land