Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-28

part or one OF the Dollefs OF the river
steamer T. @. Walker, which left San
Franc. SEQ about 6 o'clock last night,
was blown out, killing i've and danger
ously wounding eleven persons, while
probably fifteen or twenty were more
OF less badly hurt. The T. c. Walker
is owned by tile California Navigation
and Improvement Company and ran
between San Francisco and Stockton.
THE DEAD:
John Tulan, captain of the 7. G.
Walker.
w. A. Blunt, the agent in charge OF
shipping sugar beets 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 Daley, fireman.
Ferdinand Law, passenger.
WOUNDED:
George P. Smith, a native of Massa-
chusetts, deck-hand, burned about the
| face and body.
James Corcoran, deck hand, will
probably die.
! Jack Holburg, known as Jack Sperry,
Waterman, injured in head and scald-
ed over entire upper part of body.
Coratti Dominica, deck hand, scalded
about hands and face and back in
jured.
John Burns, deck hand, burned about
head.
G. Foppiano, Of San Francisco. pas
senger, injured in the face and breast.
Edward Paul Jones, stevedore, scald-
ed about face and hands.
Martin Mccartney, Of San Francisco,
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Louis Brizzoalan, Of San Francisco,
wine merchant, badly injured.
John Figoni, Of Stockton, deck hand,
head cut and back hurt.
The majority Of the passengers were
in bed when the explosion occurred and
were awakened by the report, which
was as
LOUD AS A CANNON'S ROAR.
The people rushed from their rooms
III 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 escap-
ing steam enveloped the front portion
Of the boat till it was impossible to
see how much OF the boat had been car
ried 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 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 en-
plOyes 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 brayely 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 &C
CURED. Mrs. Henry was
BLOWN THROUGH THE ROOF.
The flooring was blown upward and
she was hurled with great violence a
distance Of twenty feet towards tie
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
1890 this afternoon. She retained
until a few minutes be- !
fore her death Her sufferings were
so intense that she begged the physi- !
clans in attendance to end her life.
but all that could be done was to dead
en- the pain by the use Of narcotics.
Ar. Henry was terribly scalded. He
was thrown some distance away, but
not as far as his wife. He died shortly /
after being brought to the city.
Mr. Blunt was instantly killed. He
was standing on the lower deck as he
making landing short dis
lance above the place where the ex-
plosion occurred.
Jerry Daily. the fireman, was in the
fire hold of the boat when the accident
occurred. The escaping steam com
pietely enveloped him. scarcely por-
ion of his body escaping the seorchIng
Tapor. He died st the receiving hospi-
al at 1915 this afternoon.
Underneath the lower deck, where
he deck-hands slept.
THE ORGANS AND SCREAMS
we're terrible, for the unfortunate i'm
'risoned men were receiving the full
'orce of the steam as it camp from the
boilers. Eight OF them wele almost