The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-16
EIGHT KILLED
ON BATTLESH|P.
Explosion on Georgia Injuries
Thirteen Others.
MANY VICTIMS ARE DYING
Two 100 Pound Bags Of Powder
Catch Fire In Gun Practice.
LINE OFFICER LOSES HIS LIFE.
MANY VICTIMS ARE DYING
LINE OFFICER LOSES HIS LIFE.

Blinded by Smoke and Flame, Men
Screaming In Agony Crawl Up Lad
ders to Safety, While Lieutenant
Goodrich, Son of Admiral, and Sea-
man MaIeck crazed With Pain, Leap
Horribly Burned, Some Beyond Rec
ounition and the SembIance of HUI
man Beings-Eyes Were Burned Out
and Faces, Bodies, Arms and Legs
aBlackened--Ship Hastens to Boston,
Where Injured Are Placed In Hos
pital.
Boston, July 16.-Eight officers and
seamen of the new battleship Georgia
are dead as the result of an explosion
of two 100 pound cases of powder on
the vessel while at target practice in
Massachusetts bay off Provincetown.
Fourteen other men, one of them
line officer, were terribly injured in the
disaster, and several of them are dying.
The explosion took place in super
Imposed turret, and the damage to the
ship was confined to that inclosure.
II is not serious.
The injured men are at the Naval
hospital at Chelsea. The Georgia has
returned to the practice grounds where
the accident happened.
These are the dead and injured:
The Dead.
Lieutenant Casper Goodrich, son of
Rear Admiral Goodrich commandant of
New York navy yard; appointed from
Connecticut.
Faulkner Goldthwaite midshipman, APP
pointed from Kentucky; next of kin w.
Holdthwaite, Hopkinsville, KY.
William J. Burke, seaman; next of kin
Mrs. p. G. Clair, S51 Granite street, Quin-
cy, Mass.
George c. Hamilton, ordinary seaman;
next of kin George W. H. Hamilton, Al
Wellington street, South Framington,
Mass.
George Miller ordinary seaman; next
of kim no relatives referred to friend,
George Charles, 95 Seigel street, Brook
lyn.
william F. Pair, seaman; gave as resi-
dence at time of enlistment Brooklyn.
william ]. Thatcher, chief turret cap
tain; next of kin Mrs Louis A Thatcher.
HOS West Sixth street, Wilmington, Del
William M. Thomas, seaman; next of
kin mother, Mrs. Eleanor T.. Thomas "a
Thomas street, Newport, r. 1.
The Injured.
John Arthur Bush. seaman; residence
at time of enlistment New York.
James F.. Cruise, midshipman; next of
kin father, Major Thomas Cruise quar-
ternaster United States army at Omaha
Neb.; appointed from Nebraska.
Charles Leon Eich, seaman; residence at
time of enlistment Frankfort, Ind.
John A. Fone, seaman; residence at
time of enlistment Trenton N j..
Harold Leon Gilbert, ordinary seaman
residence at time of enlistment South
wick, Mass.
Charles N. Hansel gunners' mate first
class; residence at time of enlistment
New York,
John c. Maleck, seaman; residence at
time of enlistment Cleveland, o.
l.. o. Muse, seaman; residence at time
of enlistment Berea 0.
Sam Louis Rosenberger, seaman; resi-
dence at time of enlistment Philadelphia.
Frank Schlapp, boatswain's mate, sec
ond class; residence at time of enlistment
North Adams, Mass.
James Patrick Thomas seaman; resi-
dence at time of enlistment Brooklyn.
Orly Tagland, chief yeoman; residence
at time of enlistment Richford, MINI.
Edmund j. walsh, seaman; residence
at time of enlistment Lynn, Mass.
News of Disaster by Wireless.
The first news of the disaster was
received at the navy yard in a wire
less message from Rear Admiral
Charles NJ Thomas, commander of
the squadron. 1t briefly told of the
nature of the explosion, said that sew
enteen men We're injured eight serl-
ously; that none was then dead and
that the Georgia had left the target