Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-26
BLOWN
 TO PIECES.
Thirteen Killed and
 Several Injured,
Tow Boat Boilers Exploded
 House Near the Explos- ion was Partially Wreck The Boat was Valued at $25, 900.

Louisville, ky, May 26.-Thirteen persons were killed, three fatally in- jured and five hurt by an explosion of boilers which totally demolished the towboat Fred Wilson, off Rivervfew Park, to-day. The dead:
 Captain Joseph Price, Pittsburg.
 Unknown white man, believed to be a Pittsburg insurance agent travelling with Captain Price.
 William Quinn, steward. Pittsburg.
 Albert Miller, pilot, Ffftsburg.
 Sherman Shively, second engineer, Pittsburg.
 First cook, name unknown.
 Joseph Warren, colored, Middleport, Ohio.
 William Thornton, colored, Middle port, Ohio.
 Patrick, portion of body found on coal boat.
 Four white deckhands, names un- known.
 Fatally injured:
 Emma Williamson, chambermaid, burned.
 J. Lettercouth, deckhand, Wellsburg, W. Va, scalded.
 Cliff Johnson, Tyrone, Pa, burned.
 William Timmons, watchman, head scalded, serious.
 John Miller. deckhand, Pittsburg, nose broken.
 Cooley, kitchen helper, burned.
 Charles R. Nadel, pilot, injured about head.
 William Miller, Allegheny, Pa, bruised about head.
 The Wilson was the property of the Monongahela Coal & Coke Go and left Pittsburg last Friday with six barges, twelve coal boats and four flats, bound for Louisville. She arrived here about midnight, had proceeded down the river and was about to tie up when the explosion occurred. The cause is not known. The boat had just put about to back a tow into a landing place when the explosion took place. Henry Sykes, first mate, could give no explanation of the accident. He and Chief Engineer Walker were the only men on the boat who escaped injury. Neither man could give the names of the deckahnds. nor did they know the name of the passenger who was making the trip with Captain Price, save that he came aboard at Pittsburg and that they had gained the impression that he was in the in surance business. He is described as man past the middle age.
 Herman Shiyely, second engineer, was blown through the side of the Wilson and landed twenty-five feet away on top of a shanty boat. Father Cunningham was one of the first to ar rive at the scene of the explosion and gave extreme unctiOn to several men who were dying.
 The police and hospital ambulance and the automobiles of the morning newspapers carried a corps of physi- clans and nurses to the scene, which is four miles from the heart of the city. The injured were taken to the residence of Colonel John H. Whallen until they could be better provided Tor at the city hospitals. MT Whallen.s house which is.about 15O yards from the river, was badly damaged by the explosion, but none of the, family was injured. The front doors were splin- tered, the chandeliers in the drawing room were shattered. and nearly eY- cry window in the house was broken. Colonel Whallen sent the first word to the city and he used his private yacht in rescuing those blown from the boat.
 The Wilson was built eighteen years ago and was reconstructed in part last year. She was valued at $25,0O0. She was insured ill the special insurance" which all boats of the coal cOmbina- ton carry. Her length was 174 feet; 30 feet 8 inches beam. The Wilson was literally blown to pieces and her hull sank in Is feet of water.
 Two heavy pieces of her boiler were found almost 500 yards from the bank and her flag floats from the top of q tree near Riverview Park, where it was blown with a piece of wreckage.
 The thirteen members of the crew who were saved were all injured with two exceptions.