The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-11-29
ACCIDENT.
Steamboat Boiler at Stockton. Cal, E1
pIOdes-Six Killed and Many Hurt.
The Screams of the Injured Passenger
Were Heart-RendinS - Deck Hands,
Pinned in Their Bunks, Received
she Full Force of the Steam.

STOCKTON, Cal. Nov. 2S.-The mos
disastrous river accident in the history
of Stockton occurred Sunday morning
near Fourteen Mile slough, when
part of one of the boilers of the L. e
Walker, which left San Francisco abou
6 o'clock Saturday night was blown
out, killing five and dangerously
wounding II persons, while probably
Is or 90 were more or less badly hurt
The L. C. Walker is owned by the Cali
fOrnia Navigation and Improvement
Co., and ran between San Francisco
and Stockton.
The majority of the passengers were
in bed when the explosion occurred
and were awakened by the report
which was as loud as a lannon's roar.
People rushed from their rooms in
their night clothes and found the
whole forward portion OF the steamers
upper works blown away. The cleo
trio lights had been put out and the es-
Gaping steam enveloped the front por-
ton 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. Capt. John
Tulan had been 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 damned up
against it. One of the employees of the
boat secured an AK and cut the upper
part of the room away and finally re-
moved him, but not until he was vir-
tually roasted alive. When pulled out
the flesh dropped from his bones in
large pieces, and although he was sui
ferlng overwhelmingly, he bore it brave
y and not grOan escaped him as he
was taken out of the steam.
Watson 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 up
ward and she was hurled with great
violence a distance of 20 feet toward
the bow of the boat. She was horribly
crushed by the fury of the explosion
and also badly scalded with
escaping steam. Her injuries proved
fatal at 1880 Sunday afternoon.
She retained consciousness until few
moments before her death. Her SUI
fering was so intense that she begged
the physicians in attendance to end
her life but all that could be done was
to deaden the pain by the use of mar
cOtics.
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 this
city.
Mr.. Blunt was instantly killed He
was standing on the lower deck as he
intended making landing short
distance above the place where the
explosion occurred.
Jerry DAILY, the fireman, was in tho
fire hold of the boat when the accidena
occurred. The escaping steam COM
pletely envelOped him, scarcely por-
ton of his body escaping the scorch-
ing vapOr He died at the receiving
hospital at 1915 Sunday afternoon.
Underneath the lower deck, where
the deck hands slept, groans and
screams were terrible, for the unfor.
tunate imprisoned men were receiving
the full force of the steam as it camc
from the boilers. Eight Of them wer1
almost roasted alive. Those who vera
able made their way to the deck al
best they could while the more seri.
orsly injured were unable to gea
out. Arms and Saces of those near tho
main entrance were frightfully scalded.
Dominica, who was on the lower deck.
was blown into the water and had to
swim ashore after mis- back was horri-
bly, scalded
Ferdinand Law, of Seattle, died aft q
o'clock Sunday evening at the receiv-
ing hospital, making the sixth death.