Show OIL BURNING STEAMER H. H EXPLODES TANK LIVES I i BELIEVED TO BE LOST e. e 0 SAN CISCO Dec 3 The 3 The report that there were WO men ment menon on 0 G 0 hoard the thc Pro so Progreso reo was without foundation There were about forty men stten Iten t 0 0 on In the vessel and of these twenty were injured and fourteen are aro 0 0 missing So far ar no fatalities have beers bee reported epo 0 BA SAN FRANCISCO Dec 3 A A disastrous explosion occurred on the steamer today The Progreso was laid up at the Fulton lion hon works and was h Into an nn oil burner when one of her oil ta tanks exploded The Prow Pro- Pro w greso Er o burned to the tho waters water's edge edg-e. and will be a total loss The fhe first explosion Was as followed b by a second Ten men have been taken laken to the general military ho hos- hos at the Presidio near the Fulton Iron works and it Il Is thought several men have hae been killed Three hundred men were working on board hoard at the time of ot the explosion Edme rac of or them 1 were tin thrown own Into the ba bay There Is great fear that several SC were Hed Many Ian have been tal taken cn to the hospitals hospitals' in the the city Second Mate Jordan 0 ct ot the Progreso death says he has lo lost t three who had a a. narrow narro escape a from men rho ho shipped lately latch from rom the East t i The first firt explosion occurred occulTed at 9 30 o'clock In the tine first of the four our oil oh tanks iM J the thc remaining three tanks exploded at 1010 making It Impossible to tell lell at t this lime time how boW man many men havo have been killed or Injured f The steamer Progreso o belonged to the Saginaw Steamship company and had bt wen teen n at the works for the past t six months She wa was waR to ha Iet next Wednesday fo S tor Nc New York and was to be put on the run between New Neva N York and Galveston f R William Van Tas ell Tas-ell en a boy In the found himself Mansell on the upper deck I having been blown out of of the lIe He tJ thinks there were thirty or forty orty men inch I i in t the he The flies fire he says were star started led yesterday evening as the i ere lire to give a l speed d test of tho the machinery |