Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-16
Spark Reaches Exposed Cases
Of Powder and Deadly Flare
Burns Out Eyes Of Helpless
Marines.
SHIP AT TARGET PRACTICE
IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY
Men Driven Insane by Their
Terrible Suffering Leap Into
the Sea and Are Rescued But
to Die. N


tBy Morning journal Special Leased wire.I
Boston, July 15.-With eight of her
officers and crew dead and fourteen
others either dying or suffering from
terrible burns received in an explo-
sion of powder in the after super-im-
posed turret. the battleship Georgia
steamed slowly up Boston Harbor
from the target practice grounds in
Cape Cod bay off Provincetown, late
today. and landed the dead and 1njur-
ed at the Charleston navy yard.
Six were dead when the battleship
reached here, and two more, one of
them Lieutenant Casper Goodrich, OF
Brooklyn, n. Y, son OF rear Admiral
Goodrich, died later at the hospital.
With the arrival Of the Georgia
there became kaown the details Of the
most terrible catastrophe that has
ever taken place along the coast OF
New England. The accident occurred
] shortly before noon today, while the
Georgia's crew were at target prac-
tice, In some manner, as yet unex-
planned. two bags Of powder became
| ignited, and in the terrible flash that
\ followed the entire turret crew, con-
sistiBg of three officers and eighteen
men. were enveloped In fire and re-
ceived horrible burns, one officer and
five men dying before the shiI
reached port. The victims of the ac'
cident are:
N The Dead.
GOODRICH. CASPER, lieutenant
Brooklyn, N. Y.
HWAITE, FAULKNER
midshipman, Kentucky.
THATCHER, WILLIAM j.. chic
turret captain, Wilmington. Del.
BURKE. WILLIAM JOSEPH, sea
man, Quincy. Mass.
HAMILTON, GEORGE c.. ordlna
ry seaman. South birmingham, Mass
MILLER. GEORGE, ordinary sea
man, Brooklyn, ~ y
4 THOMAS. WILLIAM NJ, Newport
Rhode Island.
PAIR. WILLIAM. Brooklyn.
Seriously Injured.
Cruise, James T.. midshipman, Ne
! braska; hands and face burned yer
seriously
schlapp, Frank, boatswalns matt
second class, North Adams, Mass
back, chest. arms and face burned.
Hansell, Charles, gunner's matt
first class. New York; face and hand
burned.
Taklund. orly chief yeoman, Rich
ford. Mimi; arms, back and fac
burned.
Walsh. Edward j., seaman, Lynn
Mass: chest and face burned fatally
Busch, John A., ordinary seamal
New York face, arms and che
burned, probably fatally.
Eich, Charles L.. ordinary seamai
Frankfort, Ind; face, arms and han'
burned.
Gilbert, Harold L., ordinary SCI
. man. southwlck. Mass, two-thlrds
body burned.
Fone, John A.. ordinary seama
: southwlck, Mass; two-thirds OF boo
= burned.
Maleck, John G., ordinary seama
Cleveland, Ohio; arms and fa'
burned.
: Meeae. Louis o., ordinary seama
!, Berea. Ohio; arms, face and che
burned.
!, Rosenberger. Samuel L.. ordInal
4 seaman. Philadelphia; arms and IA
burned.
4 Thomas. James p, ordinary SCI
q man. brooklyn, ~ "; face, arm
s chest and back burned, fatally
Four other men received minor II
r. iuries. Their names we're not glvl
out, and they we're taken off the shl
s The story OF the Explosion.
!. The explosion occurred In the art
u super-lmposed turret where the me
: under command OF Lieutenant Gasp
Goodrich, son Of Rear Admiral Goo
rich. commandant Of the New 70
a navy yard. and Midshipmen Faulkn
n Ooldthwaite and John r. Cruise, we
operating the elght-inch guns.
The guns IN the Forward turret HI
D finished eight rounds Of practice, al
A the guns OF the after turret had III
& one round. Two cases, as the
'f 100 pound bags OF powder are cali'
" had lust been sent up through I
;. s.ammunitlon hoist and were IN {
y arms OF the loader, whose name v
y withheld By the ships officers 4
- loader stood al the breech OF one
u the elehi-lnch guns. al ready TO
~ nert the charge. At this instant [
Il. turret was seen 10 be smoky and q
d. men who stood near the loader saw
va black spot on the pad. indicating q
the charge had been ign'ied and y