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Show IS! VICTIM OP EXPLOSION m DIES VERY SUDDENLY Wl gnS "VALL13.ro, Cab. .'July 2. Bc-njamin Rftf P. King? fireman, second class, who was 5. ' badly scalded by the bursting of a 2Jj boile'r tube aboard the destroyer Hull last Tuesday, died very suddenly at the WJ I' LWarc Island hospital today. "He ap- i? i poared to bo better in the morniug and -va8 allowed to talk to several friends Sm 1 10 vs;e -,ie hospital. Immediately J?! if; after their departure lie swung himself a ,over on. his side and was dead when the ,Vtg i iiitlondaut. next looked at him. ,l5 1 King was a native of Washington. ?Tj!J J ID. C. and entered the navy from that '"Mm 1 i city in 190G. II is nearest" relative is ?2 j? Mtp. Annie E. King of Washington, '311 ner itir men injured on tho JmII' Hull are all recovering rapidly. |