The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-22
BENNINGTON DEAD
WILL NUMBER 90
Forty-nine on List Of Known
Dead-25 Are Missing and
Fifty Injured.

Sa0 D16gO, Cal., July. GZ.-In6 appal-
ling list Of victims Of yesterdays ex-
Bennington grew turnout the night.
almost every hour adding to the long
rows Of dead in the overcrowded
morgues.
Forty mine known dead is the latest
summary.
There are ifty-two bodies at the yari-
GUS morgues> and seven bodies which
are still floating about in the flooded g
boiler rooms and which cannot yet be
reached.
List Of the Dead.
Following fsa revised and corrected
list OF the dead: s. $3.50
Y. e. Perry, lieutenant, U. s. n.
F. w. Brown, Peoria, machinist, first
class.
G. Newcombe, boatswain s mate, sec
ond class.
B. A. Hughes, ordinary seaman.
A.. Bensel, coalpasser.
W. Cherry, coalpasser.
G.. Rushing, coalpasser.
A. H. Schoggre, San Francisco, sea.
6. H. Hagbloom, coalpasser.
A. B. Carr, able seaman:
D. F. Saunders, apprentice seaman.
W. W. Wright, oiler.
E. Dresch, ordinary seaman.
j. l.. Burns, seaman.
L. G. Quinn, oiler.
G. j. Kuntz, coalpasser.
Joseph Hilscher, Washington, fire.
man, first class.
G.. Brownlee, seaman.
n. J. Geiss, coal-passer.
r. B. Ferguson, chief machinist g.
mate.
R. A. House, apprentice fireman.
D. W. Bruison, Cheney, Neb. T..
| Joe Hunt. oiler.
Charles MceKen.
| c. j. Essen, Waco, Texas, s. G. O.
w. G. Wilson.
Ed B. Robinson, Stockton, ordinary
seaman.
J. g. Barchus, Nebraska, seaman.
! G. F. Nelson.
T.. B. Archer, ordinary seaman.
M. G.. Chambers, seaman.
John Mackone, Michigan.
ePyton Carpenter, Little Rock, Ark.
ordinary seaman.
Eight unidentified at morgue.
Seven bodies recovered from the
ships hold, which are classed as I'M.
| identified.
Twenty-Five Missing.
Besides these, there are missing about
| twenty or twenty-five men.
About fifty injured are scattered
among the various city private and
/ public hospitals, according to the state
ment compiled at an early hour today,
| and about twenty-five are still missing.
OF the injured, several are expected to
die, and it is believed the death roll
will be swelled to sixty and perhaps
| will exceed this figure. 8
| Of the missing, it is probable that q.
number will turn up today, and it is
! believed the bay also will give up sew
eral dead.
When Explosion Occurred.
The Bennington at the time Of the
accident was, lying in the stream Just off
street. The warship had received orders
from the navy department at Washing
| ton to sail for Port Hartford, where she
was to meet the monitor Wyoming and
convoy the vessel to the Mare Island
navy yard. q
readiness for sailing when, suddenly and
without any warning whatever, the star
board forward boiler exploded with .
! deafening roar. The explosion was ter
rife. People standing on the shore saw
huge cloud Of white steam above tho
Bennington. Columns of water were
hurled in the air for a distance of near
lly twice the height of the spars Of the
vessel.
4 1t was Immediately apparent that q
terrible disaster had happened on the.
4 Bennington. The ferryboat Romona,
4 which was coming across the bay, hur-
l ried to the assistance Of the stricken
4 warship.
Prompt Assistance Rendered.
8 The tug Santa Fe, which was tied up
4 at the commercial wharf, the launch Nc
Kinley, the government launch Derussey
and large number of launches and
81 water craft which were near the scene
. at the time, also rushed to the assist
4 ance of the Bennington.
4 At the time of the accident, Com
mander Lucien Young and Surgeon +.
s E. Peck we're on shore. The two Of
4 icers, as soon as they learned Of the
a disaster, hurried to the waterfront,
j Continued On I'd PaRs. ~ Column.