Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-30
EXPLODING BOILERS
CAUSE MANY DEATHS
Awful Accident to Steamer
City of Trenton.
ENGINEERS PREMONITION

EN- YIN EEh . I 6EMUN414ON II
Catastrophe Occurred on Delaware
River Between Philadelphia and
Trenton-EIeven Persons Dead, Nine
Missing and 81 Injured.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30. - Eleven
known dead, nine missing and 80 in
jured, is the record made by the expIo-
sion of the boilers of the steamboat City
of Trenton on the Delaware river yes
terday afternoon.
All night long city tiremen, police
men and officials and employees of the
Wilmington Steamboat company, which
owned the i'll fated vessel, worked in
and around the burned and blackened
hull, searching for bodies of victims of
the disaster, believed to be either in the
vessel or i'll the water. Hundreds of
men are dragging the river bottom with
graphing irons today and they will con-
tinue to do so until every person that
was on the boat is accounted for. OF
the II bodies that have been recovered
10 have been identified as follows:
The Identified Dead.
John P. Chew of Camden, assistant
engineer of the City of Trenton.
Miss Elizabeth Green of Philadel-
phia, crushed TO death.
William Dunn of Philadelphia, pas
senger.
Arthur Lansing, IA years old, Tren-
ton, N. J.
James O'ConneIl, fireman, Philadel-
phia.
Mott Mable, fireman, Philadelphia.
August Mable, deck hand, Philadel-
phia.
James Graham, engineer, Trenton,
N. J.
James Mccormick, Wilmington, Del,
passenger.
William H. King, Philadelphia, pas.
senger.
The unidentified body is so badly
burned that it's sex cannot be determ-
ined.
Among the missing are:
Miss Ethel Stokes of Trenton.
Miss Helen Briest, daughter of former
Mayor John Briest of Trenton.
According to the statement of the
widow of the dead assistant engineer,
John P: Chew, the man had a PRESENT.
ment Of death. Mrs. Chew says that
before leaving home for work on Tues.
day night her husband said:
Lizzie, may never see you again.
have a presentiment that there will be
an explosion on the boat. If there is
there will be no escape for me. They
are running at too high q steam pres
sure, and if an accident should occur, I
and many others will be killed
OF the 81 injured persons taken to the
hospital attached to the Philadelphia
House of Correction, all are reported as
doing well today and it is not now be-
heved that any of them will die.
Cause of the Explosion.
August Relnhart, an expert machinist
employed by the Neafie & Levy Co.,
builders of the City of Trenton, recently
overhauled the boats boilers He said
today that there is no doubt that the ac-
cldent was due to the exhaustion Of the
water in the boilers. He gave it as his
opinion that the boat was being run too
fast and this exhausted the water. The
boat was late when she left her wharf
yesterday afternoon, and it is stated
that much of this lost time had been
made up when the explosion occurred.
The captain and other officers of the
boat and the officials of the company
deny emphatiCally the statement that the
City of Trenton was racing with the
steamer Twilight of the opposition line
when the explosion occurred. The Twi-
light and the City of Trenton were close
together at the moment of the explo-
sion, the former being in the lead.
Those on board the Twilight did not
hear the explosion or know of the mis-.
hap to the rival boat until too late to be
of assistance.
Never In the history of the Delaware
river has there been such keen rivalry
between lines of river steamers as dur
ing this season. On both the upper and
lower parts of the river races have been
of daily occurrence. Only a few weeks
ago the crew of the Trenton steamer
PocOnoket was censured by Coroner Du-
gan for failing to go to the assistance of
some people who were drowning. At
the time the Poconoket was racing with
the Twilight, the boat that led the City
OF Trenton yesterday when the explos-
ion occurred.
uperintendent of Police Park de-
olded today that the matter will be fully
investigated by his department If the
charges OF racing is sustained the Off
GERS and crew Of the wrecked steamer
will be arrested.
List of Missing Persons.
In response to a request the Depart
ment of Public Safety today received
the following list of missing from per.
sons who had relatives ana friends on
the Trenton:
Irene Wild. 16 years.
Clara B. Wild, 13 years.
Dora Wild q wears
Mrs. Mathilda Gross, all of Phila-
delphia.
Marion Ashmead, II years.
Anna Herr, 18 years
Emma Eastburn, l8 years.
Miss Helen Ballentine, 40 years, all of
Germantown.
Louisa Tilleson, 25 years, Philadel-
phia.
In addition, two or more Trenton peo-
pie are known to be missing.
River Steamer Sinks.
ST. Louis, Aug. 29.-The steamer CITY
OF Clifton, owned by the st. Louis and
Tennessee River Packet company, sank
at Seventy Six landing, about Is miles
above Grand Tower, Ills She was
bound for st. Louis and her cargo con-
Sisted mostly of lumber. Her passen-
gers, which were transferred, arrived
here safely on the steamer Chester. The
boat sank in 8 feet of water and will be
saved.
Case of LeprOsy at st. Louis.