Show ELEVEN STEAMBOAT passengers PARBOILED of 11 awful on atean r far 1 hl ladelphia while the steamboat city of trenton was on her way from philadelphia to trenton N J wednesday afternoon her port boiler exploded killing eleven persons and injuring over a score of others 1 our passengers are missing but as arany were slightly injured it is thought the missing may be among those who did not find it necessary to go to a hospital three of those killed were passengers whose names can not be learned the other fatalities being among the crew after the explosion the boat took fire and was run aground in the marshes opposite torresdale Torr esdale where the blackened hull now lies her hold is filled with water and it is feared more of her passengers and crew may be found in the bottom of the boat when the water is pumped out the vessel left philadelphia at 1 45 p m and exploded her port boiler at a point about sixteen miles from the city scalding steam and water poured into the cabin and sections of the woodwork of the boat were torn away by the force of the explosion those of the passe ogere who were not scar red by the scalding steam and boiling water were by flying portions of the splintered cabin legs and arms were broken and faces and bodies were parboiled the water was only four feet deep and many of the pass engers waded ashore the vessel was new having been in commission less than two years and the engineer claims she carried less steam than the aw allows |