Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-09-10
Ayers Sarsapar1Aa
Bloom
EXPLOSIONS ON wARsHIPs
Accident To The North Dakota Adds To
The Long List


1t would appear in recent years the
country loses more men in time of
peace than in time of war. Thurs
| days accident on the battleship
North Dakota adds to the long list of
explosions on American warships as
follows:
Battleship Maine Harbor of Ha-
vana, February Is, 1898, blown up;
266 officers and men killed.
Battleship Kearsarge West Indian
waters, February 8, 1902, bursting of
gun; killed.
Submarine Boat Fulton-Off Lewes,
Del, April &c, 1902, inside shattered
by accommodating gas in storage bat.
teries; IL injured.
United States Boat Puritan
Brooklyn navy yard, July /, 1897,
slight boiler explosion; no casualties.
Battleship Massachusetts of Gu
Zebra Island, January 10, 1908, gun
explosion; killed.
Battleship Missouri-Pensacola
April /, 1904, eexplosion of powder |:
33 killed, hurt.
Battleship Massachusetts-At Phil
adelphia, December Is, 1904, explo-
sion in fireroom; killed, 4 scalded.
Battleship Iowa-April 9, 1903,
explosion of gun; killed, 5 injured.
Cruiser Olympia Norfolk, Va,
September II, 1908, explosion of
barrel of alcohol; 2 killed, several in
jured.
Battleship Connecticut-Se
October, 1904, three mishaps, or at
tempts to wreck; no one hurt.
Gunboat Bennington-San Diego,
CAL, July 81. 1905, boiler explosion;
"a killed, &c injured.
Battleship Keasarge- the CARR
bean Sea, april Is, 1906, pow der ex-
plosion; killed.
Torpedo Boat Worden--August IL.
1906, expl osion in paint locker; men
badly burned.
Battleship Georgia In Massachu
sets Bay, July Is, 1907. powder ex-
plosion; s killed, Is injured.
Cruiser Tennessee-Off the Cali
fornia Coast, June 5, 1908. explosion
of boiler tube; A killed and mary
injured.
Torpedo Boat Hull -Harbor of San
Francisco, June 80, 1909, bursting of
boiler tube; men badly scalded.
Cruiser North Carolina-Off Naples,
July II, 1909, explosion of coal
gas; officer killed, man injured.
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Hopkins
Harbor. of San Diego, February IA,
1910, boiler tube explosion; z men
badly injured.
Cruiser Charleston-At sea off Olon-
gapo, ?. l., March 81, 1910, breech-
lock of gun blown off; s men killed
and number injured.
Battieship North Dakota While on
the way to Hampton Roads, Septem-
Der 8, 1910. oil tank exploded; men
killed and 9 injured.
Though she has been completed only
seven months this is not the first ac-
cident on the North Dakota. An ex-
plosion occurred while the warship
was being given preliminary trial
by her builders, the Fore River Ship
and Engine Building Company, of
Rockland, Me. At that time one of
the boiler tubes blew out, scalding
four men very seriously and burning
several others.
The North Dakota also had a fire
since she was launched in November,
1907. That was on the thirteenth of
last May, at the Boston navy yard,
when red hot rivet dropped into
ground cork in one of the after maya
zines while the ship was in dry dock
for alteration. The prompt response
of her $50 men to the ships fire call
resulted in quick extinguishment, and
averted the threatened calamity. The
North Dakota's magazines are lined
with cork, sheathed inside.