The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
FIVE SAILORS DEAD.
A BOILER ON THE CRUISER TEN
NESSEE EXPLODES WHILE
AT SEA.
EIGHT OTHER SAILORS FATALLY INJURED
Barbara to Los Angeles With Other
Members of the FIeet-Rear Ad-
miral Sebree Had Just Left the
Fire Pit.

Los Angeles, Cal, June Five
men were killed and ten injured on
board the armored cruiser Tennessee
at sea at eleven o'clock Friday when
a boiler tube broke, hurting fragments
of iron about the engine room and fill
ing it with scalding steam. The ac-
cident happened an hour after the
way with six other of the Pacific fleet
to Los Angeles ports What meager
details have been learned were CLEANED
from official wireless dispatches being
transmitted from the squadron to
the wireless stations at San Francisco.
The cruiser was steaming at full speed
when the explosion occurred.
e. j. Burns, a coal passer, New
York city, succumbed to his injuries
after a night of terrible suffering.
Six of the dangerously injured men
were brought off in a ships barge,
and sent to Los Angeles on a special
electric car in charge of DR.. Coffman
of the Tennessee. The men were car
ried tenderly on stretchers by their
comrades from the decks.
Those removed to Los Angeles are
Walter S. Burns, passer, New York;
r. w. Watson, fireman, second class,
East st. Louis, ILL.,; A. Harris, water
tender, Brooklyn, N. Y; H. Fittz-
patrick, fireman, first class, Brooklyn,
N. Y; S. Stamates, fireman, first class,
Norfolk, Va. F. S. MaXfield, fireman,
second class, Toughena, Pa.
MaXfield is not expected to live and
several others will probably die from
inhaling gas and steam. The injuries
of R. F. Rutledge, a coal passer of
Athens, Pa, and of G. N. Corns, fire.
man second class, Hartford, Conn.,, are
much less grave and these men were
not removed from the ship.
The bodies of e. j. Burns, New
York: e. G. Boggs, of Woodland, Ala;
G. w. Meek, Skidmore, Kan; George
Wood, Scranton, Pa, and A. Reinhold,
Germany, will be brought ashore and
will be buried with military honors in
Harbor View cemetery, overlooking
the bay.
Rear Admiral Sebree himself es-
capped death or serious injury in the
fated fire pit by a mere moments
time. He had left the room where the
explosion occurred not so seconds be-
fore the fatal blast The admiral
stood in the engine room adjoining
the fire room with Chief Engineer
Robertson and Capt. Howard. His
first intimation of the tragedy was as
he mounted the ladder and a half
naked fireman leaped past him suffer
ing from severe scalds.
The force of the explosion was ter
rible and many of the injured are
fatally hurt it is believed. Orders
were flashed to DR.. w. A. Weldon,
local marine surgeon at San Pedro,
directing him to prepare for the car
ing of the injured sailors. According
to the wireless dispatches, no officers
were injured. The damage to the
ship is not known at this time but II
Is likely that the boiler rooms of the
ship have suffered seriously.
The Tennessee is Admiral Sebree's
flagship, commanding the second di-
vision of the Pacific feet. The other
vessels accompanying the Tennessee
are the California, Washington. West
Virginia. Colorado. Pennsylvania and
MARYLAND. comprising the first divis-
a., commanded by Admiral Dayton.