The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-06-11
A BOILER ON THE CRUISER TEN.
NEssEE ExPLoDEs WHILE
AT SEA.
EIGHT OTHER SAILORS FATALLY INJURED
Vessel Was On the Way From Santa
Barbara to Los Angeles With Other
Members Of the Fleet-Rear -Ad.
miraI 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 1t with scalding steam. The ac-
cident happened an hour after the
cruiser left Santa Barbara on her
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, 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 DIR. 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 g.. 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. Maxfeld, 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, 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
irst intimation of the tragedy was as
le mounted the ladder and a half
laked fireman leaped past him suffer
ng from severe scalds
The force Of the explosion was ter
'ible and many OF the injured are
atally hurt it Is believed. Orders
we're flashed to DR.. w. A. Weldon, {
ocal marine surgeon at San Pedro, s
Erecting him to prepare for the car
ng Of the injured sailors. According
0 the wireless dispatches, no officers a
we're injured, The damage to the
hip is not known at this time but II
, likely that the boiler rooms Of the
hip have suffered seriously. 6
The Tennessee is Admiral Sebree's G
agship, commanding the second di- 9
ision of the Pacific fleet The other Il
essels accompanying the Tennessee al
re the California, Washington, West q
irginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania and /
Iaryland, comprising the first divis- n