The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-12-01

STOCKTON, Cal, Nov. 2s.-Near Four.
teen Mile slough part of one Of the
boilers of the river steamer L. o.
Walker was blown out. killing six and
dangerously wounding II persons.
while probably 10 or 20 were more or
less badly hurt. The T. Q. Walker ran
between San Francisco and Stockton.
The dead were:
John Tulan, captain of the I. q.
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 r. O. Walker.
Mrs. Watson Henry, wife Of the chief
engineer.
Jerry DAILY, fireman.
Ferdinand Law, passenger.
The wounded were:
George p. Smith, a native of Massa.
chusetts, deckhand, burned about the
face and body.
James Corcoran, deckhand, will prob.
ably die.
Jack Holberg, known as Jack Sperry,
watchman, injured IN head and soalded
over entire upper part of the body.
Coratti Dominica, deckhand, scalded
about the hands aid face and back in
jured.
John Burns, deckhand, burned about
head.
q. Foppiano of San Francisco, pas
senger, injured in the face and breast.
Edward Paul Jones, stevedore, scald.
ed about face and hands.
Martin MCCalfrey of San Francisco.
deckhand, burned about the head and
body.
Louis Brizzolanan of San Francisco,
wine merchant, badly injured.
John Egoui of Stockton, deckhand,
head cut and back nurt.
The Walker ran into a mud bank
near Beuicla. Shortly after the steamer
had been gotten off, John Yorke ana his
wife, passengers, heard noise which
they supposed to be the escaping steam.
No attention was paid to it, however.
What caused the explosion will prob
ably never be known. The steam drum
burst with terrible violence.
The majority of the passengers were
in bed when the explosion occurred.
People rushed from their rooms in their
nightclothes and found the whole for
ward portion of the steamers upper
works blown away. The electric lights
had been put out and the escaping
steam envelOped the front portion Of
the boat.
The screams of the men who were
looked i'll their rooms near the pilot
house were heartrending. Captain John
Tulan had been blown from his bed
against the door of the stateroom and
50 seriously injured that he could not
move. The door was cut open with an
AK, but not until he was virtually
roasted alive.
Watson Henry, the chief engineer,
and his wife were IN their room near
the pilOthOuse. Mrs. Henry was blown
through the roof. She was horribly
crushed by the fury of the explosion,
and also badly sCalded with escaping
steam, Her injuries proved fatal. She
begged the doctors to kill her before
dying.
Mr., Henry was terribly scalded He
was thrown some distance away. but not
as far as was hIs WIFE, he died shortly
after belu- brought to the city.
MIR. Blunt was instantly killed. He
intended making landing short dis
tauce above the place where the cXplo-
sIUu occurred.
oNA4N D&AF' Nllt hitluNu, was III Lue
fire hold Of the boat The escaping
steam completely envcloped him. lie
died at the receiving hospital.
Ludcuncuth the lower deck, where
the dgcGhauds slept, grUaus and screams
wer" terrible, for the unfortunate i'm
prIsOuGd men were receiving the full
force Of steam As it came from the boil
ers. Llght.Ut them were almost roasted
alive. Those who were able made their
way to the deck as best they could.
while the more seriously injured were
unable to get out. DominiCl, who was
on the lower deck, was blown into the
water and had TO SWIM ashore after his
back was horribly scalded.
lOOut an hour after the explosion the
passenger steamer Dauntless, coming
from san Francisco, rendered assist.
ance and all the wounded and injured
were taken aboard. a telephone mes.
sage was sent to this city and the
steamer Clara Crow, with several ply.
slclans with medicines, etc., were sent
to aid the Dauntless. The relief boat
met the Dauntless short distance down
the river and the physicians were quick
ly taken on board.
A report from the hospital says that
G, Foppiano will probably die. Jack
Holberg was reported in a precarious
condition. With the exception of these
two men no further fatalities are antici.
pated.
MAY BE eNRouTE TO SPAIN.