The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-06-11

San Pedro, Cal, June "A terrible
accident occurred on board the United
States armored cruiser Tennessee
while the ship was steaming at the
off Point Huenene, Cal. A steam pipe
in the ~starboard engine room burst
under 235 pounds pressure, killing four
men and injuring ten others-all Of the
men in the compartment at the time.
The explosion, the cause Of which Is
unknown. occurred only a few min
utes after Admiral Uriel Sebree, Capt.
F. B. Howard and Chief Engineer Rob-
ertson a left the engine room on a
tour of inspection.
The dead:
GEORGE WOOD. water tender,
Scranton, Pa.
E. G. BOGGs. second class fireman.
Woodlawn, Ala.
A. REINHOLD, m~achinist's mate,
second class, Germany.
GEORGE w. MEEK. first class fire.
man, Skidmore, kan.
The fatally injured:
s.. Stemattos. first class fireman.
| Norfolk, Va.
Toughkenu, Chester county, Penn.
The seriously injured:
F. j. Burns, coal passer, New York.
Walter w. Burns, coal passer, Brook
Ign.
j. P. A. Carroll, second class fire.
man, Hartford, Conn.
Slightly injured:
r. w. Watson, fireman, second class,
East ST. Louis, III.
r. F. Ruttledge, coal passer, Athens,
Pa.
g. M. Corns, fireman, second class,
I%ronton, O.
A. Hayes, water tender, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
H. Fitzpatrick, fireman, first class,
Brooklyn.
ScaIded by Steam.
There We're fourteen men in the fire.
room when the tube, which is four
inches in diameter and enclosed with
water inside the boiler, blew out, driv-
ing a torrent Of scalding steam, coal
dust, cinders and hot ashes through
the ash pit and showering the half
naked men.
A blast Of white steam from the
ventilators told those on deck of the
accident n Lieut.. Commander S. S..
Robinson, the navigator, instantly
sounded a general alarm and dropped
use in case of fire. Within the doomed
fire room No. 8, amidship on the star
board side, which is one of the six
teen enclosed fire compartments, the
surviving seamen We're fighting for
life. Reinhold n Meek were strick-
Wood crawled or We're dragged into
the adjoining fire room, No. II, and
died almost Immediately. The sur
viving seamen, all of whom received
some injuries, acted with the greatest
herofsm in aiding their unfortunate
mates.
At Full Speed.
The Tennessee. flagship of the second
division of the Pacific cruiser fleet. left
Santa Barbara at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning with the cruisers Pennsyl-
vania, Washington, Colorado and West
Virginia in her wake. on the semi-an-
nual official speed trial provided for by
naval regulations. Admiral Sebree had
ordered the cruisers to full speed, and
the Tennessee had just concluded a Sc
ries Of evolutions and started straight
away at a speed Of between IS and 10
knots. The admiral in the engine room
had just taken note that the dial re-
corded a steam pressure of 235 pounds
when the explosion occurred. Less thar
Is MINUTES earlier the tubes had en-
dured a pressure Of 265 pounds, 80
pounds greater.
An official investigation of the acct
dent has been ordered.
There was no other wreckage, but the
explosion was described by the surviy-
orr as frightful. So great was the blast
or s>ot and steam that every man in
the Rom vas biaclsened from head to
feet, while those closest to the break
We're literally cooked alive.
The Tennessee is one of the new ar
lnored cruisers of Ia, 500 tons displace-
ment, % knots an hour, and carries a