| Show EXPLOSION ON JAPANESE CRUISER Occurred in Stern Magazine of The Thc Matsushima Which Immediately Sank LOSS OF LIFE PROBABLY PRO ABL Y BIG Some Officers Were Saved but The Thc Majority of Them Were Not Not fo Os u it t tin Navy Thought Not uL to In be h Hlay H a nv n Vc l ci Was 11 ulM Only Ton rUIS 1 I 1010 April 20 Admiral su so commander comman el of or the training squad squadron ron 11 reports that an explosion occurred o In 11 the tho Mern of ot the Ih ii cruiser ln at 1 OS this morn mont morning ing while anchoring g at It ken g a 1 harbor on aim tho tw ho Pescadores Islands TIme The he I inia II ii 1 ill odIn 11 ely sunk sU uk until U only milY the lie was visible Efforts at ot rescue by h boats from tho time cruisers und and continued until unU 9 a m iii 1 saving the Iho lives Iv of 11 men mel Including in dud log some o I lO Thin The ma majority ia of the Iho were not nol saved and IU at ut tho th e Into ot or the tho admirals ld 1 I II s im ic import le port pOlL tho lie cadets numbered 58 out of nf it to I complement of ut COO OO Tho TIme sons SOlS of at Haron Barol Vico minister of ot tIle tho te foreign otle and amid n n of Prince ibId Hold 1101 marshal are lre among ulong thin Iho cadets who ho it I Is tat feared tire arc lost host 1011 also nile CaItI CUll II Name The Jho catipo of tiny the explosion Is iii un on unknown known WHAT WHA LOSS LOSH IS Washington April Apri SO Huron Taka uka hire tIme the Japanese ambassador was vas us Just about to 10 start for CUI time the state de do department today when a 1 representative ot of the Ih Associated Press showed him than tho dispatch train from ol telling of the loss 1051 of ot Iro by b the tho explosion on 01 the lie cruiser It I was as the first hews news the Iho ambassador had hal received of ot the thie Ih tragedy und amid ald ho he expressed deep delp regret over the occur occurrence rence With 1 lh their usual caution and ull eon con conservatism COl the Iho naval at evidently are IC obtaining all ul the thu Information thOm tion ton possible before out any UI full tul report of ot the tho disinter tur No report of ot the explosion reached the nay navy de do department during dimming tIme the morning from the tho American naval at nt Naval Navah who lio have hao looked hooked up uptime the time ot of the cruiser drew time tho con calm conclusion that her loss was ns not lint a ii 1 heavy ono aime to 10 the thu navy Bh HiI was wa of ot ICKS 1051 than Ihal O tO s displacement and of ot a type which has not been beel tel fol followed lowed since her hOl The rho peculiarity of or the watt was her armament which consisted of at o ono omie 1 12 Inch gun Iun mounted on arm Oi her poop deck In Iii addition she Khe carried 12 Inch guns grille anil II a battery of smaller eel cal al alIC llor IC and four fo I I a tor torpedo tubes tithes Bho Sho wa wal built buit In lii II 1890 designed und constructed d at France tier Her principal his hiM historic tone tOllo record consists of or her part in tho tin war wai lI between Japan and China Chinn when f rho ho was UIL hie h flagship of Ii Admiral Ito 10 in m inthe mIhe inthe the battle halie of 11 time the Yalta Yalu river Sh Shi also participated hum iI id lit Iii tho thio battle of mit If the hue t Pea et ea or of Japan lupan Two rivo sister ships worn 10 built the In ISiO 1 and ani the tho In 1891 1891 The Tho hc cruiser haul had no 1 armor Sue She is I classed us nl a u pro plO protected cruiser having a I protected dek delc e l of 1 Inches thick hot HOI speed was Ui 17 knotH It l Is km II understood that hIatt tIme thu vas was In iii II n u c an ns a II school chip hll Ba t on UI tilt fIrst advices naval navil experts inferred that tho time explosion was waR caused by hy either a ii I defective 1 ho trie wire an aim fU electric fuse use or Cr 01 deterioration atol In the thit II stock 1011 of pow lW powder der hei affected by iii heat The Time deterioration d tion of powder causing it to tl 0 Ignite and explode is ono Olin ot of the thi Ih constant aboard war vessels ry navy flay na except the he I United States Slates Slat os oshall hall haa installed cooling machines in iii th thin tho inaKi I of at f their ti ships I mis of type IW for far the tho purpose ot our maintains un taut II oven celi temperature I It in lii II not regarded as af probable that the tho hUll had such luch apparatus in installed I stalled as Its 11 watt MI ns us rut out of date chute us os n ii fighting still ship It 1 was commented hero here that the tho do do accident would woul have 1110 been even 1 more 1010 grave gruva lout had tho time cruiser bean j en In itt 11 COY tn hut but hiI Japanese water A despatch lath to the time naval of oaf f tho he Japanese front from frol my lI tint that those saved Included officer 24 H II 1 1 1 ed 01 e c nice leers and awl I 41 4 1 of ot tile 10 urea crew ru |
