The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-16
EIGHT KILLED ON BATTLESH|P Terrific Explosion in a Turr0t of the Georgia While at Target
 Practice. LIEUT.. GOODRICH A VICTIM Son of Admiral Goodrich and Was Appointed
 From This
 State. IN COMMAND OF TURRET Sufferings So Great That He Throws Him
 self Into the
 Sea.
IN COMMAND OF 7URRE7

Boston, July 15.-Elght men dead ana thirteen injured, of whom two were on the dangerous list at the United States naval hospital at Chelsea, was the grim record at late hour tonight of the result of a powder explosion on the battleship Georgia to-day off Province town. Six were dead when the battle- ship reached here, and two more, one of them Lieutenant Caspar Goodrich, of Brooklyn, N. T., son of Rear Ad- miral Goodrich, died later at the hos pital.
 The naval catastrophe was the most terrible that has ever taken place along the coast of New England.
 The accident occurred shortly before noon to-day while the Georgia's crew were at target practice off Barnstable in Cape Cod bay In some manner as yet unexplained, two bags of powder became ignited and In the terrible flash that followed, the entire turret crew, consisting ofthree officers and eighteen men, were epveloped in fire and re- ceived horrible burns, one officer and five men dying before the ship reached port. The victims of the accident are:
 Dead.
 Goodrich, Lieut. Caspar, Brooklyn, N. Y. who was appointed a cadet from Connecticut in 19O7
 Goldhwaite, Faulkner; midshipman, Kentucky.
 Thacher. William J., chief turret captain, Wilmington, Del.
 Burke, William Joseph, seaman, Quincy, Mass.
 Hamilton, George G., ordinary sea- man, South Birmingham, Mass. Miller, George E., ordinary seaman, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thomas. William M., seaman, New port. R. I.
 Pair, William F., seaman, Brooklyn.
 Seriously Injured.
 Cruse, John T., midshipman, Ne braska, hands and face burned, very seriously.
 Schlapp, Frank, boatswains mate, second class, North Adams, Mass, back, chest, arms and face burned.
 Hansell, Charles, gunners mate, first class, New York, face and hands burned.
 Taglund. Orly, chief yeoman, Rich ford, Minn., arms, back and face burn ed.
 Walsh, Edward J., seaman, Lynn, Mass, chest and face burned, fatally.
 Hish, John A., ordinary seaman, New York, face. arms and chest burned, probably fatally.
 Eich, Charles L., ordinary seaman, Frankfort, Ind, face, arms and hands burned.
 Zone, John A., ordinary seaman, Trenton, N. J., arms, back, neck and face burned.
 Gilbert, Harold L., ordinary seamon, Southwick, Mass, two-thirds of body burned.
 Maleck, John C., ordinary seaman, Cleveland, O., arms and face burned. Meese, Louis O., ordinary seaman, Berea. O., arms, face and chest burned. Rosenberger Samuel L., ordinary sea- man, Philadelphia, arms and face burned.
 Thomas, James P., ordinary seaman, Brooklyn, N. T., face, arms, chest and back burned, fatally.
 Four other men received minor. in- juries, whose names were not given out and who were not taken off the ship.
 Goodrich Commanded Turret.
 The explosion occurred in the after superimposed .turret, where the men, under command of Lieutenant Casper Goodrich,s son of Rear-Admiral Good rich, commandant of the New York navy yard, and Midshipmen Faulkner 'Goldthwaite and John T. Cruse, were operating the eight-inch guns.
 Powder Bag Ignited.
 The guns in the forward turret had Just finished eight rounds of practice and the guns of the after-turret had fired one round. Two vases, as the big 1O0-pound bags of powder are called, had just been sent up through the ann munition hoist and were in the arms of the loader, whose name was with held by the ships officers. The loader stood at the breech of one of the. eight inch guns, all ready to insert the charge. At this instant the turret was seen to be smoky and two men who stood near the loader say a black spot
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