| Show DEED OF UNKNOWN SAILOR Home Charge in Gun on The he Georgia Closing it Be Belore Before Before fore lore Flames Got to It GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS OTHER a r t 1 11 lie HaSan U Saw SaV rin JIMh l Not hut hilt Sought to t o ot Avert AvertA A t 1 I I July Jub 1 IOn On board tho Georgia ae In III Boston Hoto arbor this after Irtel Capt Henry tola toI to thu tho th thAs Associated As Press the story stor ot oC the r on the battleship on Mon Monday l ll j day da i which lias Ims ia cost CORt the lite lives II cs of or nine men h ne te ot of the United States Slates navy ancL Injury In some onie cases caO probably fatal talal tat to t 13 others Capt McCrea said CAPT MeOn AS STORY I 1 was lS on Ott the making the therun therun run rail tor or the practise I 1 was w as s taking ob 01 8 of ot ench shot As s shot utter shot was hit hll rom the guns gun I saw nw SIl we were ere the records of ot or the other titer of ot the Meet On Oi the bridge I 1 the commands from froni the utter tut So I 1 when the next shot vas va coming I heard the shout Fire but there v is 48 no O mid then I saw iW men run running running ning ping att ft to get sel the Ille tire fire hose hoso that Is III 1108 4 IwI s loW Inta out In readiness when there Is I tiring IrIng oln on onI I 1 rushed to 10 the tho after bridge near the turret turrel to Iu sui s what was Ws tile the mat matir t tr ir r The wilIer water was vas already ulrea being p into the th turret The Tho und Midshipman led tho way vay wa for fOI their men with the hose I It ItU tU t ll you ou there vas w ae courage No man maim knew what hud had happened mid and nn no noman noman man knew Into tuto what whal danger dancer he might h he rushing Hut those men never I thought of ot self or danger That brave act art will look well e on their rec reI records Then rhen they began to bring out the themen then men ruen n One of ot o the te wa the one ue in I whose hands the powder Jowder was RS when whon It flashed He lie laid on top oC of the lower turret t wIth a n blanket under his hIm heat heaL I went Vent to 10 him hini I 1 could not recognize e him lilt Ills hands were burn burned ed Nl to the bones bonem The flesh was gone cone With those hands ruined above aboe his chest hest and the tips tip nf of if the thc lingers bent toward lotard each enoh other I hear him whisper Oh God Oh nil God Oh God Goal He lie could not nol move Inove his hips enough to utter titter other words word I bent ent closer raid to him My h clear fellow God Goal has heard your Near prayer He lie was Wl va breathing but In short died gasps and soon moon v The men were brought out ns fast east ns as they could ho bo taken from froni the tar tur turret ret Most tot of ot them felt Celt teller relief ns as soon us liS they thc got to the open air all The gases gnes from limo smokeless powder ore ter terrible what kills lIs The Tho exter exler external external nal burns were hideous hut to breathe that tuft stuff U Is fatal Tatal tnt l lOne One Ono man men In that turret was not hurt and I t do donot donot donot not understand how ho he lie could es cc escaped clI ed He Ue helped to take out ant the themen themen men mem lie III too 00 showed showell grit after utter the hock he hia hind lind hn had Lieutenant Good Goodrich Goodrich rich set let nn an example to 10 his men that none nona but a courageous officer colI set get when he plunged cd right Into the flame dame anti and Rases to lead heed the way wu to I 1 told his father near Hear Ad AI mimi Goodrich that It tt was AVOS such eelA cers that made a Il great navy His Ills ex me example ample will not be he forgotten After Atter lie JIO got ot to 10 the deck he throw lf overboard If it our launch had not been nearby on Its return reI urn from rota the examination of ot targets he ho would have Ime drowned A GREAT OnEAT ACT ACl OF OP Probably one ono little act or 01 rather ono one great tact net of one of the lie men pre Ire prevented vented a It far greater grealer disaster ler I 1 dont know his hili name lies Hes He dead lie Ite gad and ono one other stood by Ir tho the second gun that had Just lust been loaded The rhe last Illat powder bag lied hall been put pUl in was pro pio protruding 11 u little from Irom the thic gun When he lie i aw saw w the tho flash Instead of dashing for tor or the ladder lal to save sao himself he lie crowded home the charme In tho the gun arid and with the help of ot the other men got gol the gun closed cl before the thu leached the bag If It the llama Ilamo had c touched that bag bill there would woud have IUle been heen un nn awful explosion for tor the pow v u tier er WaR wan confined In lii the tho tun gur Ul and amid would i i not Hot have flashed ns nil the other did but hut ft would have exploded Not n Il man In l 5 the th turret would have haye been left alive p whether other damage have been done dono That man luau gave hIs hla if for CUI other otherl I am told has In Inquired It n man that gave his hla life In closing the shutter huter tram from time the ammu ammunition room loom m to III the tho ship from froni blow blowIng log Inn up 1111 It would be ho very OT wrong r n to hUY huv II a iton that go 10 put pill because I can enn cannot cannot not flot had find that thaI theme la Is any ony foundation Lot for 01 It nr III need for tor a at man mun to tn make any tn attempt to do anything of tho the sort that But It If time the resident president heroism let I t him look up im 11 this thil bravo brave moult who 10 stood Blood by br h Ills his gut cur to nave sava the rest Since we WC went back buck to the target the tho men mell have havo been heen shooting r than before the he accident t Wo Vo haven t finished practise and IWo are aro going lineR back to 10 the targets and break tho the record HOARD BOARD or OV orThe The naval board Aboard or ot Inquiry appointed in il Investigate tho the raupo oC of tho time explosion I sion Ion on last laet Monday Itell tho the United States naval hospital at Chelsea Chelsca toda to in take taho the tho depositions deJo of ot o tho the Injured men menThe mc The Tho board of ot Inquiry IH Ia composed of Capt Seaton Schroeder of o tim the battle battleship battleship tile ship Virginia Capt W V AV V j M N the battleship New e Jersey Com Corn Commander mander Mark chief ordnance Il of If the fleet tl ct and Lieu Kenneth Cn attached to tho the Virginia rite Tho board carefully ta Inspected tho the tur tar turret turret ret In which the time explosion occurred and took the tho evidence of ot such a ch mild men as all were familiar with the con conditions conditions the turret It at tile the time and were weme witnesses cS oC or the The Georgia steamed up the tho harbor this afternoon and the time board bord of or In Inquiry transferred Its Investigations to the 1110 naval hospital at nl Owing to tho critical condition of the tho Injured m men sn In the hospital hOl four of whom It was feared might not nol ot survive time tho night the tho surgeons In of Dr the tho th would permit tho the board of ot In to examine 1 only three lInce of or tho the In Injured Injured injured men menThe The men mop who rilO were Interviewed 1 by bythe bythe the board were Charles Chares Hansell gun jun gunners hers ners mate of or Now York Charles Chlrles I Ilch L ordinary culinary seaman of ot Frankfort I I ml and Samuel I L or ordinary seaman Ream of Time Tho nature ure of ot the thc questions and answer was gs not given out the Inquiry bolus being strictly secret i iI It I Is II understood ol that the I lions of ot tIle tho board are nr practically com corn I and nil II that tomorrow tom Its Us will be ho transcribed and amId forwarded to WASh Washington ingon through Admiral Ad ANOTHER A THEORY OF ACCIDENT 1 Among the naval officers or Of time the fleet there Is a growing sentiment to 10 reject time the theory that the powder was act afire II tire by h n a stray It ry spark train from Lime tho fun funnels un nels of the shi ahl shift It n Is known that tho the craw crew nt or the time af aC after toy tel superimpose turret had hod an tIn Intense seal mica eal to 10 become the tile crack crew of at tho the fleet anti and It in III I thought that or and ud dl of at precautions In such rapid handling of o the tuna guns might have caused time the tragedy tho Iho explosion being due possibly to grams of powder from the breech the tho bag of or powder rate Late today It was learned that time tho Miller dead dall seaman known us vs George GeDrge enlisted ted under an on assumed name jus HI HIrl Benjamin Klel er Ho rl lIt name wan wait WI left heft his hili hi homo home In Brooklyn mitt last February Ind enlisted in n the navy His HIli mother Is III believed d to hl he either 1 In iii Los Ios Angeles I or some orne place In lit Georgia |
