Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-06-06
TEL WERE INJURED; some Fatally
Accident Occurred OF San Pedro
and the Only Details Received OF
the Accident Have Come by Wire
ies-cruiser is Said to Have Been
Badly Disabled.
NV Associated PreSs.)


Four men were killed and teQ in
juVd on board the arInurcc cruiser
Tennessee sat sea ut IL O'Clock To-Day
when a boiler tube broke, hurihS
fragments of iron about tho hre
room and filling it with scald,ng stt am.
The accident happened an hour ai'ef
the CRUISER Lift $ansa Barbara ON
her way with six other vessels OF 'he
Pacific feet to Los Angeles ports.
Only the most fragmentary news Oh
tfie dikx#e rs has been received up I"
O'Clock this evening as the cruiser
had not arrived at San Pedro.
What meager details have been
learned swere CLEANED from Official
wireless dispatches transmitted from
the squadron to the Wireless STATION
a; San Francisco. The cruiser was
steaming at full speed when the ex-
plosiOn occurred.
The force of the explosion was ter
rife and many of The injured are
fatally hurt, it is believed. -
Orders were flashed to DR.. w. az
Weldon. local marine surgeon at San
, Pedro. directing him to prepare for
the caring of the injured sailors
According to the wireless dispatches
no officers were injured. The dam
age to the ship is not known at inns
time. but it is likely that the boiler
rooms Of the ship have suffered Sc
Iiousiy.
Cruiser Badly Disabled
The seamen will not be landed untii
tomorrow, when they Will DE TAKEN
ashor, at San Pedro and brought 10
the marine hospital at Los Angeles.
where arrangements nave airea"S
beeu made to receive them
Several of the other cruisers OF the
feet arrived at Long Beach, Redohdo'
and other ports ahea,l OF the lehhes-
600 and il was evident tina: the snip
h.d ,eeu considerably disabled by the
accident.
The Tennessee is Admiral Sebre $
flagship. commanding the second di'
vision of the Pacific feet. The other
ve:s, Is accompanying the Tennessee
are the California. Washington, Wesi
Virginia. Colorado and Maryland, com
prising the first division commahae"
by Admiral Dayton.
The Dead and injured.
Following is a list OF the dead anu
injured received bx the local wire
less station:
Dead: George Wood. water tender
Earl Boggs. fireman. second ciass'
a.olph Rcinghold, machinist he'ps r.
second class: George Merk. hreH'ah
first class.
Probably fatally injured: F. S
Fold fireman second class; T. ~
Exantcs. fireman. first class: r. ',
BURNS, coal passcr; w. '. E"rns' coal
,asscr: ]. 7. Carrll. fir man. second
Glass. r. r. Parsons. fireman. sec
OIL cIa5s, slightly injured
Tfnp arh,cred cruiser Tennessee
,ommal.d nv Captain Thomas p
Howard was launched December /"
1904 a, the yards Of the Crsnp SNIP
bu:,d,ug Company in the presence o.
ocxerpor Frazier. Of Tennessee. ana
his staff ami largs number "' DIS
,iusuixhcd guests. The vessel wa
cbris,eped by the 1s-ycar-o'i danshn,'
Of the governor. Ms Annie Keith
Frazier.
The Tenn sscc with the Washing
ton prcccd-d Admiral Evans ba''r
shin feet ~ ;hc Pacific. saiiin~ r'''
uamp,op Roads October !? of las
xcar. ON that voyage~shc swaS 'n'
s,eyb,p Of Rear AJmira! uriei Scbr 2
Tbc Tennessee Is attached to IN" SEC
o,d division ~ the first squadron :"
the Pacific feet.
rsooessee at Les Angeles.
TIL, Tennessee arrived and apch"'
a ,,jdde thc brcakwa'er too nih'
from the waicrfron' shortly sf'r
o.cJcct. The injured viii not "
brought ashore until iDmorr"w.
Fourteen Men IN soem.
There were four;o men W w
Arc rc,m whcr tho inhc which .
four ,acbes IN aiamctcr aEI iHcios7'
win water jas;ae the hvilcr blew or
ar,xinr torr-n, Of scaising s'ca'
c,aJ dust. cinders and hot as0e