The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-08-29
"A FATAL
EXPLOSION.
Now Believed That at
Least Fifteen Men. WO=
men and Children
Lost Their Lives.
THE DEAD.

street
John D. Chew, assistant engineer
Camden.
Mott Ma ole, fireman Of the steam-
er, Philadelphia.
August Mable, deck hand OF the
steamer. Philadelphia.
!, Arthur II. Il. Lansing, 259 Ade-
line street, Trenton; Identified by
father.
James O'Conuell, fireman OF the
steamer, Philadelphia.
Wm Dunn, 2O2 Spruce street,
identified by brother.
Irene Weld, Clara Weld, Dora
Weld.
All the above resided at l7O5
Norrls street. They were taken on
the sseamer by their uncle Wm.
Dunn who was also killed.
Mrs. Herbert Cross, 2SOo Belm mont
avenue; unaccounted tor and be.
lieved to be among the dead.
Harry Johnson, Humeville. Pa,
a passenger las: seen alive just
before collision.
James Mccormick, Sl9 kirkwood
stseet, Wilmington, Del.
VIM. H. Keen, 952 Pine St; iden-
tilted this morning.
James Graham, engineer of the
City Of Trenton.
Unknown Girl, so badly burned
as 10 be unrecoguizablc; legs and
arms missing; may be one OF the
Welld sisters. Body so terribly
charred as 10 make it impos slble to
determine the sex.
THE MISSING. -.
Augustus Wark, deck hand.
M arion Ashmead, III pastorius
street, Germantown.
Anna Herr, lS5 Maplewood ST.,
Germantown.
Nellie Ballantyne, 80 W. Haincs
S., Germantown.
Elizabeth Gilllson, lll1 South
Fifteenth street.
A score or more of people killed and
drowned, and probably thirty seriously
sculded and n5urcd was til" terrible re
Wilmington Steamboat Company's new
steamer City of Trenton about 30
o'clock yesterday afternoon. fhr City
Of Trenton phys between Philadelphia
and Trenton and the accident Happened
while the boat WAS passing ll"Imoshurg
Oh her up trip
Among those who were killed in tn"
accident was James Mccormick Of this
H.. l. 4 lt.l
Murphy. Of Wilmington, chief engineer
on the City of Trenton was badly
scaIdrd 1t was reported last night that
there was several passengers on tn"
boat from ths city. but whether they
escaped OF moi could not b" learned. TN"
eyuct list of the dead and injured could
not h" asrcIIain"d last night. The IN
jurcl were all taken tu til" IluuS" e
Correction, which is near the >c"nr Of
tho diSa aSter.
DOUBLE BOILER Exploded.
The boat left her dock at Pier No. :,
Arch street wharv"t at o'clock, w'th
more than three hundred p""lL" OH hoard,
Captain Worrrll was in command uf Tho
boat and was in til" Nhr"lhou~c up to tin
time of the accident. All went W"ll
until IlulmeShUrg WIS reached when,
without warning tn" larg" doubt" hulIcls
suddenly exploded, throwing many p""pIr
who were sitting in th" ml1di" of the
boat into the river by the fore" of III"
explosion.
Almost instantly the boat caught hr'
amid>hpS and the passengers and crew
were thrown int, the widest state Of rN.
rit"mcnt.
There were more than one hundred
people in III" m,ddl" of the boat at ih"
time, and il was these who suffered the
most from the rNplosion. In tn" engine
room the assistant engineer and two
firrmrn were said to have hrrn instantly
killed
Escaping steam soon "nv"lopcl thG
part Of the boat and scurrs Of people
were badly Sraltlrh. 4 mntnh"r Of other.
who hrcam" panic.Strick"n hy the "a.
piosion and the fast burning flames.
jumped overheard SOM Of whom w"r'
picked up by III" many small boats which
put ont from the lr~rsry and rrmn-yl
vana shores.
Within Zen minnrs a nUmb"r Of small
boats wnro leaving uIl the surrounding
towns in III" vicinity. and many or thpac
who jumped Into the river wcr" rescued
For nrHrIy half an hou the City at
Trenton remained in ilam"I h..urh"l Just
opposite Hampton Court, Linden avrnur,
T0rrrSilal" The rnhuatS Arhhrd.r
andS uarl which w"r" quick in reach
Ing hr >rru", soon had the flames under
control
All III" injured wor l,ndri in nmhu'
anc"S. farm wagon, I'3lrul wagons. and
other "onyAyanrc, aUlI taken to Ah"
HOuS" Of Correction, which was puieAly
TRANSFORMED into n temporary hosp u
-, According TO the statement Of n
%hteNmh"ai company. the crew uf 'h".' 90"
1of.- Trenton was composed uI Captain
Worrn'h thi"f Engineer Edward Mn
ply, Nn assistant engineer, two 'U"mou.
-four d"rk h1rl-. one nu' Scr pl." .''W-
ara">r HI,l "ur uI,ur
.Iauu,- Nc'orUj'k Of mis- crv who
was liIl"l in tho "Npl"sioU lad been q
fireman IN the GIty or 'TnUtnu Iiu,,. thl'
boat was first pat in service Hhom two
months ago Al thc time rc TIA" ar"i
dent hr Is ,Jid 10 have h,nu on watch.
Mrt)usk"y iu'"udoI to- 20 oft ~ = .lDur,
vacation today Captain lHchrr. Of 'h'
City If Chester which boat orrgrl in
this city At . u'rIu"h last UjGHl. cpuhl
give uu information concerning 'hr cause
of til" Hrrd"nt.
CnprHin Wilson ur thia city. um"ugrr
Of the Wilmington Steamboat Co.,. was
at the seen" "f the accdrn' shortly after
it happened. II" remained thrr" until
late last night directing III" work and
ASSISTING the injured, George ';ro"r,
bookkr"p"r III the company, local Office,
was sent for early last evening and with
Captain Wilson hrlp"d ear" rpr. the III.
jur"A. lh" report Of the accident caused
much excitement when il reached VII.
minet"u about ; O'Clock yesterday aftnt.
noon.
III" City If Trenton with her Si,trr
Lnut hI Ill1l..u lNlth.