Show cii et ELEVEN MEN r PERISH t Die in Explosion on Steamship i Steam-ship Progresso SCORE MORE ARE INJURED k Property to tho Valuo of Two Hundred Hun-dred Thousand Dollars Destroyed Accident Occurs While Vessel Vas Lying at Wharf of Fulton IronWorks Iron-Works San Francisco Several Minor t Mi-nor Explosions Occurred at Short Intervals But All Injury and Loss of Lifo W3 Due to First One K San Francisco Dec 3 While the iJ bteamer Proprosso was lying 1 at the I wharf of the Fulton Iron works at Harbor Har-bor View this morning an explosion lr 1 occurred As 0 result cloven I men are i missing n score were more or less HO L rlously Injured ami I property to the value 1 val-ue of 5 00000 was destroyed BUSSING First Assistant Engineer Sparks lose Rex 31 eharlos Glenn i I Howard Dowc I Tame Cavnlt Dan Gallagher 1 Joseph lUagulre L t 1 Nelson < I i C C McGregor 4 Jack SLrnnd Jack Ashton I 1 SERIOUSLY INJURED I Henry Conamn aged IS arm amputated ampu-tated Robert Gibson both Ices broken A Kane fractured leg and foot R Eucoll fracture left wrist burns George McNorney bcvere d J Morgan Injured about arms and 3tg 3tgT T McGIll severely burned l Willie Van Tarpol l contusion o hip PC lor Hanson fracture right leg 4 OIL TANK EXPLODES The disaster occurred at 0M oclock Ii TYhllo forty mechanics of the ironworks I Iron-works and twenty employees of the I s hlp were on board 1 Below deck the mechanics were busy completing the crL work of converting the vessel 1 from a coalhnrnlnp coalcarrier to an oil burning ollourrler when suddenly I one I of the oil tanks blow up Men were I hurled agnliiHl the steel walla and a I Ifl phpol 0 lanin came sweeping into their 1 JacTss On the upper dock won wen 1 hurled Into the air 1 thrown Into the I ulor Three sailors en panel In washIng r wash-Ing paint fut lllo thl pilot lou 1 dU r nppeareil as the clouel of black smoke came up from the ship and were seen no mlrtON r ON WAVES OF FIRE Following the explosion the ship tT ragged In the center showing that she i had broken In two In tho olllce of the I Iron works twenty feet away every wol j window vftfi shattered and Hying glaa cut the faces and hands of many of the I Ll odlrlnta and clerk As they rushed out r into the open mirvlvors who were able i to help themselves wore leaping from the ship A great crowd of mechanics eamo running out of the works AS k non aa the panic subnldod these men set to work with 0 will to rescue men I te from the burning vessel A stream of Tj burning oil running from the tanks a ppread out until the ship lay on waves of lire The lames crept under the iharf and soon the timbers were tt blazing adding to the difllculty of the work of r cueS i cue-S nAL MINOR EXPLOSIONS As the ship Vai built of steel the fire ti on the ship was nearly all below decks us There were fourteen oil tanks containing con-taining about 400 barrels of oil In all k I and despite the efforts of the lire department T de-partment this continued to burn fiercely ii fierce-ly for hours after the explosion Numerous I Nu-merous minor explosions due to the M lire going from tank lo tank occurred f5T at short Intervals but all the Injury l and loss of life was due to the first one oftt One peculiarity of the explosion wash 1 pftiaE that several men who worn Just on the ribdpm other side of the bulkhead from where CCt It J occurred were not injured while w others much farther away were badly hurl Several men In the yards were e injured by flying debris i t The loss to the Fulton company by c the wrecking of the building and the I It burning of the wharf will exceed S200 lI I ls j estimated that the Progresso was frxfl worth about 175000 The explosion LC nhook all the buildings at Harbor View I and the rhock was felt a mile away Inn LI In-n foxv instances windows were broken several block from the scone 4 Superintendent Spiers of the Fulton Iron works lonlght staled that he beRt be-Rt r lee three or four more names would be added to the list of eleven victims I w i ihon all of the workmen worn checked I S up lie declared that the total number 1 num-ber of victims will not be known until tomorrow when the mechanics and laborers ttTO la-borers will report for duty An effort wan made today lo call the roll but It l CC WaS abandoned as useless many of the men having gone away from the worlw after the earlier excitement had subsided Tonight a tug boat Is pa jjiI irollng the neighborhood of the disaster hcW with the hope of finding the bodies of te jj victims hZ41 4 |