| Show EXPLOSION SlON DUE I ITO M TO FLARE BACK BACKert BACKart f If opt art of Accident Aboard ANari Nit Bat Ul ip MissourI 4 ME E HELD tE tEI 4 I i 0 AND roz 01 Bu But BuKay t May Kay That t n nO further er proc pro be taken is 18 the recommendation U lion tion D of t ke ie urt of inquiry appointed to tot In till e the t in the die after tur tue turret ret t of Missouri urt on OD April 13 The court hid Oie explosion ion IoD was due to a flare Ia back by an inexplicable lIon oe ci with certain usually latent guess 1 cIa eles po powder The officers of the Missouri not only are re nfl 1 responsibility for the acct acet 1 but ar are warmly commended for the thea ka they showed owed after its occurrence iii a hag ing the tha victims facts faeta were obtained from Mr Dr par lh the acting aeU secretary of the navy nav when she be returned from a visit to the tM WE where he informed info the t of the findings and their na nit nature lure ture Pull Full official announcement of the will wID be made in a statement to toft he ft wout out tomorrow Was Waa Ordinary I It was brought out in the evidence that I Ia Was set net an a extraordinary amount of ofin r in t handling room nor were more officers n and aBd men in the turret or oP handling ha room than were necessary for record target practice Among too the wit witness ness fleas who testified before the court were the two men who jumped into the th masa maia a sine room and closed Ute the door after them themas as soon seen as they saw aa the flames and one of the two survivors in the handling room The 0 other r survivor was unable to leave the hospital so 80 the court took his te y it at tb his hs bedside Father Gleason the chaplain of the testified that he had received d from a dying seaman seeman an a statement that he be bew saw w Lieutenant Davidson Da who was wa the tile officer in charge charCe of the after turret look nto iato Into th the gun aunt and then he saw aw w flames flame burst bur t forth and could remember nothing else It is said that there is nothing tr to show how that bat Lieutenant Davidson oD had bad uSed t to do d bis 1 duty dut In any respect Findings Submitted Lieutenant Mark L Bristol judge ad advocate 41 vocata of the court returned to Washing ton jon today and an resumed his duties in the bureau of ordinance He Me submitted the nema to t Rear ear Admiral Admirel Barker er com corn I Of the North No Atlantic MM lies who WIo bo endorsed them and aad forwarded the papers to the navy depart department d part went ment where they arrived this afternoon It fr N learned that a change in the form In n which smokeless powder is now made de In the th navy has bu been determined on and that hereafter it will be produced deed pr In la sticks Idea with wits a hole bole down the center This sew new lie form it is I believed will decrease the ther danger r of 01 explosions e caused by the un uneven Uneven even vea burning of ot the yo powder der |
