The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-06
Eight Others Perhaps Fatal ly Injured by Blowing Out of Boiler Tube
 on Tennessee.
ADMIRAL'S NARROW ESCAPE
Sebree Had Left Boiler Room But Fifty Seconds Before Disaster-Two Men Literally Cooked
 Alive.

San Pedro. Cal, June 5.A terrible accident occurred on board the United States armed cruiser Tennessee at HOS o'clock this morning while the ship was steaming at 10 knots on speed trial off Point Hueneme, Califor- ria, q steam pipe in the starboard en- zine room bursting under 25O pounds pressure, killing six men and injuring eight others, all the men in the com psrtment at the time.
 The explosion the cause of which is unknown, occurred only few nm utes after Admiral Uriel Sebree, Cap tain F R. Howard, and Chief Engineer Robertson had left the engine room on D tour of inspection -Four of the mep were killed instantly ano two more died at San Pedro after the arrival of tAa Tennessee. The lead
 George Wood, water tender, Scran- ton. Pa; F. C. Boggs second class fireman, Woodlawn, Aa.' A, Reinold, machinist mate, second class, Ger many George w Meek, first class fire man, skidmore, Kansas; S. s. TemaJ- ', s Maxneld, second class fireman, Toughkena, Chester county, Pa, died of injuries.
 Seriously injured. F. ]. Burns, coal passer, New York; Walter s. Burns, coal passer, Brooklyn, N. r.; ]. P, A.. Carroll, second class fireman, Hartford Corn,
 rt,t1 Ia, ty,t,, man, second claes. East St, Louis. ILL; k. F. Rutege, coal passsr Athens, Pa; c. M. Corns, fireman, second class, fronton. Ohio; A. Hayes, water tender Brooklyn. N. Y.: H. Fitzpatrick, fire ran. first class Brooklyn, N. '.
 There were fourteen men in the fire room when the tube, which is four inches in diameter and incloscd with water inside the boiler. blew out, driv- ing torrent of scalding steam, coal dust, cinders and hot ashes through the ash pit, and showered the half naked men.
 A blast of white steam from the ventilators told those on deck of the accident and Lieutenant Commander S. $. Robinson, the navigator, instant ly sounded q general alarm and drop ped twenty lines Of hose ready for instant use in case of fire Within the doomed fire room, number 2, amid ships on the starboard side, which Is one of the sixteen enclosed fire com partments, the surviving seamen were fighting for life. Rcinhold and Meek were stricken dead at their posts. Boggs and Wood crawled into the ad joining fire room. No II, and died al- most immediately. The surviving sea men. all of whom suffered some lnjur- les acted with the greatest heroism fin aiding their unfortunate mates. Rear Admiral Sebrec himself es- capped death or serious injury In the fated fire pit by narrow margin. He had left the room where the expos- ion occurred not fifty seconds before the fatal blast The admiral stood in the. engine room adjoining the fire room. with Chief Engineer Robertson and Captain Howard. His first nti. nation of the tragedy was as he mounted the ladder and a half naked fireman leaped past him suffering from severe scalds.
 When the smoke came from tho fire room, the fire call was sounded and all the crew went to their stations in perfect order and in few second! fifteen to twenty lines of hose wer' ready to turn on the fire. Several o the crew behaved with heroism ant will be reported to the department la ter when full particulars are known
 The ship was undergoing inspection by the commander of the second di vision and had been under way fol over two hours, the engines boilers and fully equal 10 the acceptance trial.
 Tho Tennessee, flagship of the secon, division of the Pacific cruiser fleet. lef santa Barbara at 10 o'clock this morn ing with the cruisers Pennsylvania Washington, Colorado and West Vir ginia in her wake on the aeml-annua speed trial provided by naval regula tons. Admiral Sebree had ordered th cruisers to full speed and the Tennes see had just concluded a series of evo lutions and started straight away al speed between IS and l9 knots Tn admiral in the engine rom had just talk en note that the dial recorded a stear pressure of 235 pounds when the ex plosion occurred Less than fifteen min iItes earlier the tubes had endured pressure of 2s5 pounds.
 An official investigation of the accl dent has been ordered.
 The boiler was of the standard tuhu lar kind, the Babcock and Wilcox mak' used on many warshlps. It consists ( large cluster of four inch tubes car rying water Into the main boiler Onl one tube and this one Of tho bottol tier exploded. The break was less tha six inches in length There was Il wreckage but the explosion was d.
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