Show IK TIMES OF PEACE WORSE THAN WA II on Battleships More Numerous Since Destruction Of Maine Than in 33 Years MOST OST APPALLING HISTORY Stone a n Bory elOr ot 0 f 7 mill lw Very Ver lu Ill Ending EmUn o p C J u uIl I W Il tho ana of nee I tour t tho lives their of brave men lost I flo h while the tho ship was Willi wase br n v e In target practise sent a II ai throughout our own i of r horror sorrow throughout the and com ry civilized lUd world In war such occur are ure expected c ted but In these neM of peace n to t have hll a n ot or IlIg OJ r otho n burned bu n to death or wounded be of 0 the be explosion of or powder In f the t of t a battleship while the arts ita o or Will war the nation nn stops to i whether tIe the accident could Uhl and If It not notH been prevented not n D Dw w H r a remarkable fact that In the tho si 3 vears covering the close of at the Civil Tar In in 1865 to the destruction of tho battleship Maine In 1838 1895 there were but t 29 accidents In the tho navy nil Including the total loss IO 8 of at 22 ships These ships lost for tor tho following reasons I LIST OF SHIPS LOST By Dr hurricanes or h by tidal waves which no human power could nave have loi seen or controlled six Bj B currents or on un chartered rocks six By B collision In cases case which the tho men had tho right of ot way and therefore their officers were not at nt fault two The blown up In Havana har harbor t bar bor The Rogers burned Tha Tho tug Lyden foundered In a ter gale Five Fhe ships were lost when presumably ably the tho accident could have been avoided MORE APPALLING HISTORY This story of at 33 years sad as It Is covering as aa It does the reconstruction period of ot our history Is even cven more ap appalling palling since the destruction of tho nd the war warIn In n tho period between 1898 and today there have havo been een more than 24 4 acci accidents dents dentA and many ot them of ot exceeding ly grave grac character During the pant seven een years there thero have boon bean lives live lost and 47 Injured through accidents caused by b explosions of powder Igni tion This Is 11 a 1 greater casualty list la In time of at peace than could be shown bj b the entire Will war with Its big battles of ot Manila and San The Tho accident on Uie Ule Georgia Increases this total casualty list to fully and men killed and Injured during the seven Tho most moat serious accidents of at tho sort nt at targe lit practise were tho to filch occurred in the turrets of at tho battleships anil That on Missouri occurred dur ing target practise oft off on AlrH 13 I resulted In the tho killing of ot five naval officers and 29 enlisted m mn n It was caused by h what Is 13 technically known to ordnance of t as a It pov flaro back that Is la In tho boro bora of ot the tho gun found their Tray fruy backward Into an nn open pen hatchway and Ignited n a charge that fM M being raised through h the ammu hOist This dropped below and Wilted causing CI using Injuries below is as well as lR above bove n AUTOMATIC SHUTTERS Tour FoUl officers and 14 it seamen killed hilled In a of ot tho Missouri and of ot those st bolow ono one und 15 mn killed by b burns or suffocation by hy th deadly gases lIsea resulting from Crom the tho ox ex Fortunately I tho powder magazine IR was closet closed by a seaman who shut Khut tho door and jumped I lIe if the magazine II 0 saving his i e this accident automatic shutters were placed In tho tion hoist to prevent powder and Rases find Ins way IU down clown Into tho ammunition room To years to the date after tho accident on the Missouri or on April is 13 HOG 1306 thero was u 1 sion In tho gun turret of qt tho th battlo alp during tice In the north Atlantic which ro re ull d In the tho death enlisted men Target had ha been finished on the when the tho accident oc oe and the tho men loading III h guns They had taken a charge put out of or one uno of ot tho puns guns and 1111 1 laid lud it on ol i Iho ho deck Inside of at thu tho turret Just to I tho ii rear of the gun Ono of ot tho gun crew uns a n stool bar known as n shell extractor nn lilt Instrument with The a B lone lont Iron ran handle handlo and very heavy was shifting this over hili shoulder when whon tho other end como In contact with un open electric switch tho and over the charge This canned n a short circuit and tho fusing of at some blos on tho switch chopped molten metal down clown on tho powder causInG Ignition Tho fhe accident on tho Georgia how however ever la not traceable to any of ot tho conditions that bi ought about thoRO on the tho Missouri and On Impulse It was that sparks from tho funnels had fallen on the tho bags hn of powder to tho guns hut but officials of ot the tho navy nuY department arc oro Inclined to scout this I theory theor They lean to the Idea Illen that In tho to mako a 0 target record for Cor tho Georgia which wis fairly fair on tho way somebody erred orrell tho Ion Hion resulted lint Intrepid went to their death Wh dont they OW make ponder bags of material asked n It man mun from Cram a u state of ot Admiral Brownson f t of tho bureau ot or navigation With a 1 kindly almost os I replied that both powder hag wont went Into the tho gun the tho explosion whatever there wa Willi of QC tho bag and that to mako ko an Inflammable bag would necessitate tho of ot powder Into tho breach a I method long lon tabooed fie It said to the tho credit ot or tho American navy that every eVOI accident Is I minutely examined Into and reports recommendations mado looking to tho elimination of such In the tho future And such will bo ho tho case with the tho Georgia but pall of Qt tho Ih disaster still lingers notwithstanding STANDING STONE DIES Thero hero died her hor this week a n most character nn Indian An Andrew drew John by b name whom thousands will from Crom the tho Capitol of the tho na nil nation tion John was a I whoso In Indian dian dlan namo was which means Standing Stone Ho lIo was a 1 laige man probably weighing pounds and ii hll he ambled through h tho of M the Capitol from the committee on Indian affairs to tn the tho committee ho attracted attention Ho Eng Ish fluently and as his was n creditor of the tho government ho was waa appointed as an on of oC the tho Seneca nation which maintains In Now York Y rk Mate tato Its tribal character to collect the tho moneys ov 0 uc el by h the tho government to tho For years yeal he lie labored with the committees of at tho th two houses of at congress 1 having to fo do with In illan mutter matters that his might n 11 their Just dues And for years cars tho committees on Indian affairs turn turned ed 11 tho old man down Finally I the tho Into Inte senator from Pennsylvania Penns Mat Matthew thew H So Quay Qua who was WIlS n 11 student if ff tho th Indian character became 11 In Johns mutters us liS they related to the tribe one of the tho treat tribes which constituted tho six i and having taken n position on In Inthe the tho of ot Indian ft fC fairs so fir that exact might bo done between tho Indian ho government as 1111 Senator Quay Qun Andrew Johns bill against tho W ov for the f C lands nel tho Interest on moneys mOlle s deposited depolt l to the credit nt r th nation heI to take tangible form Vj hen re Pc si I Ident dent was WM In the tho hit h hI t a 1 j of oC tho th ex c chief of or I h hm in inK K 11 thol brt tc If tono I many friends President K sevot t Knowing much ot or till the ro t I tI I of at bellm Inc that their demands upon tho I ment Ihl helped wherever ho Ite could In tho claims brought by II the tho Seneca tribe against lI tho treasury nd tho pathos of It nil In I that dc m t In tho collection of h bill against the government amounting to more died Ju t a week lifter after the tho government had issued a warrant to pay for Cor tho same WAS GREAT MIXER Andrew Androw John was a n great greut mixer ns os oswe we understand It particularly among tho Indiana who como come to Washington from Crom to time either on business for tho Indian office or to sec seo tho Great Grent lIther Father These Indians live at lit n Il old hotel near John Jhn Marshall Place known as all u d hero Andrew John lived No matter If tho Indiana wore Sioux Apach Apaches es or John was wali friendly und he them the tho sight of ot Washington Ho would them thema a II ride on tho rubberneck wagon or ur orio io 10 with them In their walk through the tho crowded streets and then at a t the tho end ho would land them i bureau of ot eth ethnology of which Dr W V II 11 IH III chief and take them to tho photo photograph graph gallery galler presided over oer by De luney Jill n It of oC note noto who would mako n I picture of at the tho red men ell garbed appropriately with their Will war gaudy apparel and nud then thon If IC tho Indians willing John would tIle take them over to tho Smith Institution to have 1111 masks made For a full tull blood Indians pic picture ture turc John received tine dollar If tho Indian was willing to sit for his mask he ho would receive five dollars nil 1111 the tho Indians who come came to Washing Washington ton willing to sit for Cor their pic pictures tures turcs many f them objected to having thu plastic in I upon their faces The securing of ot Indians for Cor their picture became Johns line If Ir business was low Jow ho would run In half hult bloods and quarter bloods oven go so far fal farAM AM III to 10 unk Mr Gill to pictures of Indians ho made before borore And this thin proved undoing Ono OliO clay dllY Andrew John presented u II group of to Mr II Mill Jill the latter hav having ha ing of at Indiana pic 1110 pictures tures recognized rICo In tho group ono or ort twit t whom ho he believed ho hud photo photographed Iho o graphed before Going to tu his hlll cabinet of ut negatives ho tool took out two that two of ot the In III tho room asked thom thum If It thoy tho had luul not hul their pictures taken thy thoy Mid ald yen yell and then he h showed them the tho negatives both agreed that pictures In tho bureau hun nu WIlH cut out oUI of or money by hy bin hi hand hond hilt but ici was upon tin u Ii gool und u I good citizen |