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Show COOKED ALIVE IN SCALDING STEAM One Machinist on Cruiser Boston j '. Killed and Another Fatally i Injured. YALLEJO. Jan." SL An accident in ' the engine-room of the United States steamer Boston, now lying in San Fran- 1 Cisco bay, Thursday afternoon, cost Edward Ed-ward Lee Baker his life and another victims, vic-tims, .Sanford H. Tate, lies in a critical, condition at. the Naval hospital. Mare" island, where he was transferred for treatment. The two men were machinists of the United States navy, attached to the Boa-ton. Boa-ton. While they were endeavoring to re- pair a leaky valve a plate blew out and the escaping steam enveloped them. Baker was 23 years old, ,a native of Savannah, Sa-vannah, Oa., and . his nearest knoWn relative rela-tive Is Mks. Jennie Baker of Savannah, presumably his mother. Tata is a native of Melville. N. Y.. and 27 years old. Hopes are entertained for his recovery. |