Show TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN i ir iI r I SAN S N FRANCISCO HARBOR HARBORt t E Steamer Progreso a Shapeless Wreck and Twelve Workmen Have Undoubtedly Been Killed I I The Vessel Vess IWas Was Being Changed Changed From F om a Coal Carrier to toa an Oil M Burner r When the Accident Occurred V 9 C AN FRANCISCO Due Dae 3 While the SAN steamer was lying at atthe atthe V the wharf of the Pulton l Iron v rk V ka at Harbor View this morning r n 1 explosion occurred d As A s a result of V thE explosion lon eleven men m n are are missing A ore core were mOre or less seriously In V j and property to the value of V was destroyed O OThe The Missing L First Assistant Engineer Spark Sparks Jose Te Rex flex Glenn Glonn V VV V Howard Dowe V James V f I IDan Dan Xan Gallagher C 61 i j i Joseph Maguire Iy i iI iV F I Nelson i I IC IC V V C C McGregor j j i If Jack Strand V VI Jack Ashton V I First Assistant Engineer Sparks i Jose Dose Rex Charles Glenn and Howard V V Dowe of the crow crew cr W of the tha th Progreso were wore V shipped only this morning Jose Rex is ls a eon son of Mate date Rex W P Babcock V Charles harIes Glenn GlennIa Is a brother br ther of Second Officer Glenn of the transport Sheri Sheridan Sheridan Sheridan dan Jamos James was an electrician end ond Gallagher Maguire Nelson and Mc McGregor McGregor Gregor were all shipbuilders Jack Strand was vas employed as a jire and Harry Barry Small a boy was working as a tI rivet heater His home borne is Isitt I at nt ValleJo Ashton was a n fireman on the Progreso V land ind Dowe was a a seaman Seriously Injured The list of seriously Injured includes Henry Conama aged 18 arm amputated amputated V Robert Gibson both legs broken A Kane fractured leg Ipg l g and foot footH R H fracture of left wrist George severe burns burnsI I J Morgan injured about arms and legs 1 T r McGIll severely burned Willie Van contusion of at hip hit Peter Hansen fracture right leg The rho disaster occurred at while forty mechanics of the iron ironworks ironworks Ironworks works and twenty of the ship were wre on board Below decks the me mechanics were busy completing the work of converting the vessel from a coal burning coal carrier to an oil burning oil carrier arrier C when suddenly one of the oil tanks blew up Men were hurled against the steel wall wan and a sheet of flame t C ame aine sw sweeping Into their faces On the I upper deck men hurled hurIe Into the theair theair theair air or thrown into the water Three engaged in washing paint out outside outside outside side the pilot house disappeared as the i loud cloud of black smoke came up from the V ship and were ere seen no more Panic Ensued Following the explosion the sagged In the he center showing that she lad had nil broken in two In the office of at the V inn Ir in works twenty feet away every winlow was shattered and flying glass cut the faces and anil hands of many of the officials and clerks derks As they rushed put ut into the open survivors who were vere able to help themselves were leaping from the ship A great crowd of a me mechanics I chanles came running out of the works As as the panic subsided these I Imen men set to work with a will to rescue men from the burning vessel A stream of ot burning oil running from the tanks out until the ship lay on waves pf pi lire fire The flames crept under the wharf and soon the timbers were blaz bias blazing blazIng biasIng ing adding to the difficulty of the work worle o of rescue V As the ship was built of steel the fire on the ship was nearly neady all below decks There were ere fourteen oil all tanks containing about barrels of oil in all and despite the efforts of the fire department departmentS this continued to burn fiercely for hours after the explosion Numerous Numer us minor explosions due to the fire going from tank to tank oc occurred curved at short intervals but all the injury and loss of life Ufe was due to the J first one V Escaped Esc ped Uninjured One peculiarity of the explosion was that several men who were just on the theother theother theother other side of the bulkhead from front where it occurred were not injured while others much farther away were badly hurt Several men in the yards TV were ere injured by flying debris V The loss to the Fulton company by bythe bythe bythe the wrecking of the building and the burning of the wharf will exceed 20 O It is estimated that the Progreso was worth about The explosion exPlOsion sion slon shook all the buildings at Hat Har Harbor Babar bar bor View and the shock was felt a amile amile amile mile away In a few instances s win windows windows windows dows were broken several blocks from the scone scene James Spiers jr general manager of the Fulton iron works is positive that the explosion was due to the oil all and not to the bursting of a boiler His theory is that gas generated In one of the oil tanks It was wag certainly the explosion of a tank he said If it had been a boiler boUer explosion a cloud of steam would have risen but there was practically no steam Instead it was black smoke coming from the oil oU There was only a small amount of steam up at the time List last Not Hot Complete Superintendent nt Spiers of ot the Fulton iron works tonight t stated that he be believed believed believed three or four more names would be added to the list of eleven victims when all of the workmen are checked up He declared that the total num number number number ber of victims will not be known until tomorrow when the mechanics and laborers will report for duty An n ef effort effort effort fort was made today to call can the roll but it w was as abandoned aa as useless many of the men having gone away from the thc works after the earlier excitement had subsided Tonight a tugboat is the neighborhood of the dis disaster aster with the hope of finding the I bodies of victims |