Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-16

ting on top Of the turret, where he was sta
toned to take messages, with his legs hang
ing down the hatchway. Influenced prob
ably by Lieut.. Goodrich who, maddened
by his suffering. plunged into the sea, he
threw himself overheard, too.
The first flash was followed quickly by a
second from the other bag of powder. each
containing about 100 pounds of smokeless
powder. That was a moment of terror to
all who were still conscious, but they were
few. Men were lying in heaps, moaning.
dying, unconscious, baking and suffocat-
ing:
The next minute seemed eternity, but
hep from outside came quickly and the
men were lifted out and taken away to be
cared for. But living men could not enter
the turret until the heat had been overcome
by pouring in water, which also settled the
smoke and drove out the gases to some
extent These poor fellows We're terribly
burned, some SO as to be unrecognizabe
Eyes were burned out, faces. bodies and
arms and legs blackened, and there were
no features left on some charred faces.
making Record"
"Midshipman Cruise was pointing the gun
when the flash came, and was by his side
He did not move away from the sheet O!
flames as quickly as l did, and was fear
fully burned. We were making a record
all right Lieut. Goodrich took great pride
In the work, and had all the men worked
up to enthusiasm. We had fired nine shots
and made nine hits, and still had time
enough to fire twice more, and that meant
two more hits the way Were shooting
and still be within two minutes. Now when
you fire eleven shots with eigit-inch guns
in two minutes you're doing some shooting
whether you hit the mark or not. But we
were hitting.
How those fellows suffered ,after they
faly ONT Mt loo he
love of every man on that ship yesterday.
Time and again he came down to the hos
pital and would bend over some dying fell
low with his face close to the lips that were
trying to speak and try to make out the
last words, and then turn away with the
feelings of his heart written on his face.
All the officers and the men behaved splen-
didly through it all, and there was no con-
fusion. It's fine ship, and II l go back
want to go back to the Georgia"
Two great boxes one addressed to Mid
shfpman Cruise and the other to The Sail
ors of the Georgia. were received at the
ers, and inside of each box was the card of
Admiral Yamamoto, the japanese naval Of
ficer who visited Boston yesterday.
OF the thirteen survivors three are believed
to have but small chance of recovery
The injured are at the United States naval
hospital at Chelsea. The three men whose
lives are despaired Of are Edward J.
Walsh, seaman, of Lynn. Mass. whose
Meese of Berca, Ohio, ordinary seaman,
whose arms face and chest were burned.
and James P. Thomas ordinary seaman, of
Brooklyn, N Y, whose face, arms, chest
and back were burned. The hospital au-
thorities say Walsh and Thomas might live
through the day.
Two Died Last Night.
When the Georgia arrived here yesterday
she carried the corpses of six Of her crew
who had died from their burns on the way
from the target grounds to the hospital,
and last night two more succumbed to their
injuries One of those who died last night
was Lieut. Caspar Goodrich. son of Rear
Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich. commandant
of the New York navy yard. Admiral
Goodrich arrived at the hospital with his
wife last night just before his son died,
after a hurried trip from Brooklyn.
The cause of the accident was the fall
ing of a spark which was probably blown
from one Of the Georgias smokestacks on a
bag of powder which loader was carrying
do a gun in the after superimposed turret
The powder burst into flames and en-