The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-07-22
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DESTROYED BY EXPLOSION
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uHoc. \ Telegram has ben scu; 90 The I
president notifying h'm ~ the cxploa !
sion.
Lieutenant Perry wns taken ont n /
No. ship ~ badly burned that Their j.
io hoi.c ~ his recovery. Lieutenant 4
YATES was injured. but not badly.
Commands Young aud Surgeon reck
4 The Remington were ashore Hi tie
lime II tho explosion Lieutenant
Yates was In chargr Lieutenant
Wade was the only on" ~ the officers
iboard not injured. Lieutenant Sabin
vas badly burned about the hands
)thsr officers were injured. but how
BADLY j. not known.
Lieutenant Victor Blue. one % the
,riccrs. was taken 90 n hospital SUI
cring from an acute attack Of appcn.
Iiciiis. 81.
The Bennington was under orders 20
20 90 the aid Of the disabled monitor
Wyoming nj Port Hartford and 90 tow
Ier 10 this port The eunboat was just
bout Co sail on her errand.
A dispatch sent by Commander
'oung says that Lieutenant Perry and
2 men are dead. 20 wounded. II miss.
ng and that many are expected 10 die
,efore morning lie adds that there
we're 1871 casualties altogether among
he ships complement Of go.
There were no marines aboard the
bennington. Seven bodies penned be-
ind boilers are yet unidentified. The
essel l. almost total wreck. Lieu
anant Perry. c. L. Rushing. coal
asser. and j. Kilschcr. fireman. first
lass. are dead one body has been
lcntihed as that Of X. Is. Carr, APP
rcntice seaman.
The boiler which exploded, 1t is said.
-as regarded as unsafe. Commander
Dung stated that during a recent re-
Irn from Honolulu the steam pressure
as kept reduced on that account.
Lieutenant Yates. executive officer in
large of the Bennington at the time
the disaster, wis in the aft cabin.
Ie rushed out. TO be met by n blind
Y. scalding cloud of steam as II swept
Ie vessel. Speaking of the occurrence
= said
~ must have remained seated in my
lalr several seconds after IL occurred
I'd did not know what had happened.
then rushed out and the steam, even
the extreme after part of the ship, |
as so dense that | could not get
cath Of air until ascended the rail
AS | ran forward | passed one of
If boys crawling along. There was
, time to attend to individual cases,
there were so many. About thirty
the boys were on the foredeck, all
verely wounded. called for men to
an the boats, and only dozen men,