The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-29
A STEAMBOAT DISASTER.
BOILER ExPLODES oN,PAssENGEH
 BOAT IN DELA WARE RIVER.

Eleven Persons Killed, Over Score In
 juTed and Four Missing-List of tn
 Casualties-The City ofTrenton on He
 Usual Trip from Iadelphiat to Tren
 ton, N, When the Accident Occurred
 Philadelphia, Aug. 23.-While th'
 steamboat City of Trenton of the Will
 mington Steamboat company was or
 her way from this city to Trenton, N
 J., this afternoon, her port boiler ex'
 ploded, killing eleven peresons and in
 turing over a score of others. Foul
 passengers are missing, but as many
 sustained slight injuries it is thought
 the missing may be among those whc
 did not find it necessary to go to the
 hospitals.
 The dead are: J. D. Chewa, assist
 ant engineer; Miss Elizabeth Green
 Philadelphia; two firemen, names un-
 known; one deck hand, name unknown;
 two passengers, names unknown, and
 four others not yet identified.
 The missing: Mrs. John Matthews. Philadelphia; Miss Matilda Cross, Phil
 aoelphia; two children who were seen to jump overheard.
 , The injured are: Scalded and burn ed-Theresa Rhein, Philadelphia, fa- 50 o1- phi1o 6a111hin fatally; J. S. Smith, Louis Robinson, Mrs. Barrett, Mrs. Anna Hoover of Camden N. J., Cecelia Magrogan, Hen ny Magrogan, s. Kephart, Alice E. Mattehws, Mrs. G. E. Smith, Bessie Brown, Jeanette Reid, Wilson Mecke, J. w. Hastings, F. A. Delacey, Mrs. Caminade, Miss Carrie Caminade, AL bert Lee all of Philadelphia; Edna Van Schack, Hightstown, N. J., w. E. Mersbaum, Morirsville, Pa, White Lansing, Trenton, N J.
 After the explosion the boat took fire and ran aground. Tonight she lies a wrecked and blackened hulk in the marshes sixteen miles above this city. Her hold is filled with water and it is feared more of her passengers and crew may be found when the water is pumped out. A boat belonging to the police department is pumping the water from the vessel and members of the po- lice force are on shore ready to send any bodies that may be recovered to the morgue in this city.
 The City of Trenton makes daily trips between Philadelphia and Tren- ton, stopping, at Burlington, N. J., Bristol, Pa, and other points on the way. She left the company's wharf at 1:45 this afternoon, fifteen minutes be- hind her scheduled time.
 Her passenger list was lighter than usual and she carried very little freight The vessel was in charge of Captain w. A. Worrell The other officers were: Edward Curry, pilot J. w. mate; Edward Murphy, chief engineer; J. D. Chewa, assistant engineer, and Clayton Reybold. purser. There were about twelve firemen and deckhands aboard.
 Nothing of moment occurred until the boat reached Torresdale. At a point opposite what is known as the Harri- son Mansion fronting the Delaware river, a suburban resort, the steam pipe connecting with the port boiler burst with a loud report. The forward portion of the upper deck was well fill ed with passengers while many others were in the cabin. Before any of the or employees had an oppor- tunity of seeking places of safety an- other explosion occurred and this time the port boiler was rent in twain. steam and water poured into the cabin and sections of the wood- work of the boat were torn away by the | force of the explosion.
 Those of the passengers who were not | injured by the scalding steam and boil ing water were struck by the flying | portions of the sp%intered cabin. Legs and arms were broken and faces and | bodies were parboiled The screams of the injured could be heard on shore and the cries of those who leaped over md were blown into the river were 
 Late tonight Horace Wilson, vice president and manager of the Whining on Steamboat company, issued the fol- owing statement: "As near as we can ascertain at this time the accident to he City of Trenton was due to the ex- ,losion of her port boiler settnig fire o the vessel The surviving engineers eport ample water in the boiler with n two minutes prior to the explosion. lust whta caused the explosion we are lnable to determine ta this time'
 The City of Trenton was launched asst March. She was designed for peed in shallow water between the ,orts, her draught of less than five feet ,eremitting her to run at top speed on ow tide. She was 162 feet long and 32 eet beam.
 EMPRESS FREDERICK'S WILL.