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Show POOR REPAIRS CAUSE DEATH OF 32PE0PLE "Soft, Patch" on Ship's Boiler Boil-er Held as Cause of i Explosion NEWPORT, A. I., Aug. 19. (UP) A report that boiler repairs in the ill-fated excursion steamer Mackinac Mack-inac had been made carelessly and withopt due testing, came to, the front today as investigation was begun be-gun into the explosion, that brought death and injury to a holiday party of seven hundred. List of the known dead at 30 and 11 of 4G others so seriously scalded by steam that they may die, officials announced they had summoned members of the engine crew in an effort to place the blume for the disaster. dis-aster. Repairs made to the boiler before the steamer left Pawtucket for Newport yesterday morning were said to have consisted only of a "soft patch" in one of the steam lines. It was further reported that the line then had been tested only with cold water. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. (UP) Supervising Inspector George Fuller Full-er of the steamboat inspection service ser-vice of the United States department depart-ment of commerce, left here, today for Newport, R I., to take charge personally of a federal government investigation of the boiler explosion last night aboard the excursion steamer Mackinac. |