Show if POWDER POWDER EXPLOSION ON ONI BATTLESHIP MISSOURI I v 4 five Officers and Men Were Killed Ship Was on j Target Range With Wilh the he Texas and Brooklyn at Practise f Charge of Powder In 12 Inch Gun Ignited from rr m Gases Ex Exi Exploded i Dropped Below and Set Oil Off Four Charges of or Pow Powder J y tier der erin in Handling Room Worst Accident in the Navy Since t if I the Blowing Up of or the Maine f I I Fla In April A 13 Hy tho the ex exi f i of 1 2000 OGO of powder In tie the theArter sitter after turret and tho the handling room of ut i II the hlll Missouri apt allt William it c k H 8 Cowles commanding 2 men wert VeO Instantly killed and live whom I J Pit two lIt lIIllIe die The TIie Missouri wan wall on flU the tho th l c target larget range with th tae Texas and Brook Brooklyn BrookI I f lyn nt at about noon u n nr 1 r charge charKo of o III In the thu he 1 left lefthand hand gun gUll Ignited from gases uses exploded t ed ed Id till and dropping below helow Ignited furt fur four l I t charges of ot powder in Ill II tho lie handling room roomI It and till nil exploded only ulily one man nian of the thu I I Hj 4 entire turret handling crow sur survived t f tt ed But Hut toi tie the and I I action of luI s in fl in 1 bundling handling room and magazine wa u a Mould auld 31 ii 1 one ohle of ot tho magazines exploded nd the tho ho snip would have hurl n nI destroyed CAPT m mIi I 11 Ii t Capt Cowles Cowle completely overcome by y tho the referred alL ull newspaper newspapermen newl lIller men mell to thu he of ot rhe The latter out it a I lI of the explosion mid Its cause According tu tl I him about noon Lifter after thu the Urn flut pointer of ot thu the after aner l piece I had tired thred his hl Hiring ana the tha pointer had tired tiui titu thIrd flot ut of his hla string the charge ignited 1110 all In lu Indications Li shot was W we being loaded und from Irom tho ho first t halt half of the had b lJ ben cn ell rammed homo home and tao second sectIon was being bellig rammed homo home when gases gaseR from rom the shot eliot previously tired flied J or portions of ot Ito thu chum cover COVel Ignited Is the powder K TWO EXPLOSIONS The Fhe breech wan va open o en und and u a dull thud gave notice of something unusual No Nu Num 1 loud report wan Willi made but m Beell to lead from ruin every portion of Ihu thu j H turret A 4 few fuw second a fitter ox ex explosion more muro nerce oc occurred occurred This ThIll was Willi lu III thu handling room 1 f below where hero W pounds of powder li or lr four lour charges ready to bo be hoisted i t above had Ignited were rounded and every man ot 01 the crow crew reI re reBounded mounded Bounded and every OclY mUll man ut the tho crow re I ling flog looms rooms were WHo willi water In L 15 j less Ies than five fire utter tho the first Orel IX ex two streams of water were ere ereL being played In III the moms aid when L volunteers Vero culled coiled for fIll or every eer man mail responded ngor r to go so Into the tho turrets olid ue the 1110 crew C IC II Cowles gave his hla hi commands nut hut for tor hit lit pretence of or mind and attil that of oC the out 4 core cers of the ship the tile Missouri would have hlO gone gOlle down The second explosion ton Ion near one or of tho the muga lne ond so u hot luil was vas wa the lire that tho the ot of the tte malfa Will was melt melted k cd ed It t f P nt liT f nm 1 t I JI f inoke nad the lie rumo of or tho the burned fl powder made It U almost Impossible to tol ft 1 f enter either the turret or ci l ir room but hill anti and men with hand hood t over thull mode made efforts I It I the the tho men Inside Leading f to te rescue re cuo t welling Patty The endeavored to keep huh Dim twin 1 going below IIII 1111 men mell felt fell unconscious dOUR Ii 1 nil they entered and hull hind to 10 be out ou by 11 their comrades but unheeding their t advice Din Itlo commanding rushed 1 I t below followed by Hummer Hammer the tho ordnance nod and J Davis 1 r I A a DYING Cowles caught up UI IL u dying blue In his aims und nod staggered tu to tho deck with him hUn The bluejacket blu with Ith two others other from tho the handling room roomi their place of i t had hitch crawled partly front from rom i II duty when they had hull been overcome Before the tho fumes tunes of tho burning pow powder ti der had left heft tho thio turret and cud r f vero W laying out the dead and dying mm men Three minutes utter after the explosion sion iton all alt were on duck deck and thu surgeons I from tho the Missouri Texas and Brook lyn 10 were attending to those thos not mit dead 1 MEN mN ti LYING IN A HEAP m Al AlThe The Tho 25 2 men nien ot or the tho turret t were found lying In ha a ft 1 heap They hud hiatt started for fur forthe tho the exit when the lint fIrM explosion lon occur occurred occurred red rc and had hall jUll reached there hero when the thu more terrible explosion In tho the hand handling handI ling Ung room occurred which burned burnell and I them to death Davidson the tho In charge 4 of the turret evIdently had gIven RIven somo oine i r command to tho men incH as ho was vps on top tOil tOlof i of the tM heap of men fallen there ther thereafter after ho he had allowed them to pass him him to t get Ret out of the tho turret The Tho bodies I were sero hardly recognizable rec the terrible und and tire tiro having burned the cloth clothing I log ing from the tho bodies of or the tho men mII nod and nodI the tho hung Ung them In shreds I I rho faces were the tho i and ond homes only amity Only ono One man luau was breathing when whon the turret crew crow was rescued he lie died III I a moment lifter after ho lie reached the tho leek deck Washington April 13 A full report of the tIme Missouri lI disaster tins has reached tho navy department from Admiral I Marker It says 1118 that 24 t men anti and five were killed outright by on un ex ox explosion of the gun GUll In the after atter turret Oh und and that two tao more moore men amen probably will die tile It Is believed that the lon was due to a back Ire fire Admiral Markers dispatch reads as 15 follows of the tho Navy n avy Washington Five II and 21 l 1 men mini aro dead Two more moore cannot live rc result of flon on Missouri MI Three rounds had hind heel been fired from litter after 1 gun and a It ashell shell had been sealed and two sectIons of oC powder rammed homo home when the ex ox explosion occurred killing every officer and man ama In the turret and nil but bill hu three O OIn in Ill tilt the handling room of officer Sleet r linx Informed relatives cl Names of ot dead follow W V C Davidson Dahlson Junior gradi K I F A of at Marines J 1 V P Midshipman W V M Jo l L 1 Midshipman Ward WIl I Jr Boatswains Mate ditto U I 1 U J I J Seamen W V J J 1 O U N Homier K I U It II 11 Allison Ordinary n O f Hire C e C J I II ion Inn J J P V Kennedy J 3 1 1 I Starr 1 e I Nunn C H Ii M I Franks C 11 II Meyer U H C Tobin and J J 1 W V COlD Colo II U K H I It U J Mulligan J M Roach Hoach T I 1 P 1 How flow Ho hinds limners Mule Iulo Io to A ASmith ASmith Smith Chief limo dun apt T r K I 1 Helium B laulI i Marine W I L Ii Apprentices Apprentice U C Hurdy P H It Tho Th two men who wha cannot live are aro J JT Ji 1 i T r LI J Donnelly ordinary penman and 0 O OD B D Moie apprentice Signed W I DI JOSON William C ct Davidson DaIMon yes was 09 a 1 native of ot Indiana and was VAIl appointed a u midshipman from flom roam nuth muth Dakota Kept Hopt 28 16 I lie He Wits was graduated from the tha naval academy III In ISZ anti and assigned to the tho lie Ho was promoted to en on sign ugh July Jul I 1 Isn to lieutenant junior grotto grade rullo July Juh I 1 1900 1000 and lieutenant June 16 6 II liZ lie Ho was assigned to time the Mis Missouri when abe wont went Into lute commission and was 1111 nerving 8 HA WI a n turret officer at nt atthe the tiit time of his hili death Ills wife Mm Mrs Juliet L t I Davidson reside at nt 1003 Mc Me Culloch lubell street t Baltimore where a n tele telegram do gram was wils from thin tho navy nl depart department meat ment announcing the limo death ot or her bus hus band hanl on served cred on time the Monocacy Concord Alliance and at nt the time torpedo station at Newport prior to 10 his assignment to the tho t o Missouri B g A I Israde Irnest A Junior grade was us attached to the Cleveland and It Is III assumed at nt the navy depart department ment that thai he wan Willi on tho the Missouri at tho the time hue of the tho dl as an nn umpire dur tier during lug log target practise He lle was Willi n a 1 native of lit Connecticut and ant was appointed to the naval academy train from that lint Sept 6 1896 He HI served at different u u limes lilies Oil on 1110 head Helena and und other vessels oR Ho lie returned to the tho United States In December lust lusi from from a I tour In Asiatic water vaters and suid In June last host la t was WAIl as promoted from Cram the grade grado of ot ensign at nl attained tamed In 1897 to lieutenant Junior grade He lie was assigned to time the Clove Cleve Cleveland land March 7 i Ills father J F Welch crt ert Is U a n resident ot of Danbury Coon COlin WAil sos a s of the late Inte Copt apt acidic who VII tho the flagship tin of Admiral Admirall Din D eys P s when he lie railed called lIell Into Manila bay and fought time the Spanish ll lie was ws a 1 officer on the tho th Missouri Ho lie appointed to this tM marine corps corp March Maceli li 2 1900 1100 from Pennsylvania his hll native flotIe state A telegram was waR sent by bythe b bythe the navy nn department to his mother at nt fine I Pa Ill advising her or the lentIl death of son lion MIDSHIPMAN AN WARD wlm ABD Midshipman Thomas Ward War Jr was wasa a II son of Oen Gell Thomas Ward who wha re recently recently retired from the active list lIat In Inthe Inthe the tho adjutant generals corps carps In tho the United States army He lie was appoint appointed ed od to the tho naval academy May 23 ISO 18 from New York In III which state ho hc was as asborn born Jorn He Ito completed a n course courso at nt tho the academy last lest year anti and was WOH assigned In commission to serve his allotted time of ot two wo years eurs eara at nt semi sell after graduation I MIDSHIPMAN IN NEUMANN Midshipman William W V T Neumann I f entered time the academy at nt from toni California Sept Hept 16 1895 1899 and was vas graduated last year when ho hC began a n nto two to years service at nt Pea een He lie Ra a n native of California Ills till mother IB Is III liv lug Ing In nt at Honolulu The young oung was WIlli assigned to the tho Missouri In February rime Tho Missouri In Is the very ery Iry latest of the he big battleships to go o Into commit ton flue Tho line hag was ns hoisted on all her In Inu u comur met ai 01 It by u u Conies oloe of ot President She Sho collided with the time lilt Illi Illinois nois oft off u a I few weeks ngo ago has bad hint very vcr er little firing with her h r big hie guns In III fact the tho nine mute or 10 rounds which been heen llred front from each big hilt gun Hun was WM In tho ho course courno ot of trials pho ho Is IR Ii now going through her first t regular target practise NAVY The entire navy department Is stunned B by hy time the M The rho bureau of navigation has hns been ac tie active tive tivo since time the first news of the tho acci Deel accident dent toadied leached hero here shortly titter after 4 Although the commanding of officer if fleer of the Missouri apt W V S 8 Cow CowIe leu hii Ie an all a soon all in hip hI arrived nt at Pensacola sent scat dispatches to the tho of ot kin Ida Idao of o the tho men IMn killed kill tho thin department also nillo Is h I s sending lug out these hose I announcements so IO that bitt there unity may bo h b no mistake ell lIt John K It r ci let nt oC the Iho he bureau of navigation re ie remained constantly COIlS aim thy nt it t hU hIs desk ml esk and it nil with the other officers officer of the tho bureau and a n clerical force Marled started arrange arrangements ments meats to cart nf for rOl the thu bodies of or the tho of or floors men Cly Moody loo l Is II pre preparing lIt paring u h t dispatch of sympathy to be he besent sent to Hear Admiral Barker lurker cool com of ot tim the North Atlantic requestIng him tn ta convey to tho tIme commander the and atut men utica of tho the Missouri the tho profound sympathy of ot tho ho department NO Ol lImm With only the front froum Admiral Barker telling how the acci accident dent occurred nil all the tho of at f tho the from frau Secy iN Moody doody down to tn an nn explanation of ot It The tact fart however that three b beit en fired aunt another shell phell had hr h en ln and two t 0 of powder home when heui the ex ox C occurred In the opinion of nn nt n of the thc department would tract lend to ci nn an Inference that flint the tho accident n chient might hn 0 been heen mimed by hy noine 1010 w tvr from front tIle ho previous charges which l re lIn num ll a In tn tin gun when the third chut GO was put fUt In Iii InAN AN ACCIDENT NT WAS VAS p pIt It enn be imp tint of ot the this department for tom move roie thou than a it w elt past while rejoicing f In Irl the In target on in Out our war sync ju just t such nuch h nn an no nl hull hits occurred on out the A 4 naval exPort expert c fOO MUCH I I Tho limo M l Is IR too tOil appal appalling ling to tn ItI IU But Hut 1 I feat fear Unit on rn 0 sun In ha nuking worlds lion has led letl u ti pu the lie line In our alit to III surpass th the would In III int Ilin tn t nt Al t hll IIII tt 1111 I C fir I V J n 1 fl we 10 have permuted our to tog g lIet t lie tho better of oC our Judgment It sr 1 huh uld seem from tho dispatch d not h him had been allowed to tn between till the It Is only that lint we Wl s e timid l the tho breech hrc h to hI lm olt nt d the tho mo immo moment ment the gun un walt fired timid and In BU su doing there thell I 11 i a 1 risk rl k Apparent Apparently ly I nil but three men itten In the tM handling WIlli were sere killed How narrowly the entire ship shul escaped destruction d out omit outright right Is III when whon It IH Is recalled that by Is III time the containing anywhere from GO M to charges HOW IH IS PUT 1111 IN INThe Tho The Is mit Into the 1 gun nun In three sections section each hag ag or section ILIon weighing w pounds s Sonic say nay PIt that the lie turrets of the Missouri Imd lou no 10 bottoms and anil ex ox express press pre I the opinion that titter after the acci accident ned dent Lent the lie turrets of ot all battleships will willbo I ho bo equipped with bottoms for the thc pro protection of oC the hue men In 11 tIme the handling room roam The of the tue Missouri were especially well steil known In Washington Capt Cowlen served an Ott assistant chief of the th bureau hureau of CIt navigation nuI Iton nn most mORt of the Ito killed were widely known here herl Both Midshipmen Nell Neil Neumann mann Word Ward nm nn to have been tUlip ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is soul Midshipman Neumann was ns to tobe tobe tobe be married to It the sister of Midshipman man Ward The two midshipmen were classmates and Intimate friends At their request they tho were assigned to tolie the lie saute same ship A i telegram received from frota Mrs Ir mother mothel of ot tonight that thai the lie remains ot of her boy ho be shipped to Brie I 1 Pa Pol I I f LIST OF or DEAD I The Tho navy na navy tonight fur far furnished time the following statement giving a It amore more mimic complete list of dead with the next of ot kin of or the time dead seamen and anti noncommissioned Franks l r Hurry W AV coxswain rest reAl residence dence Buffalo Franks luther father Ont Onto Starr John Porter ordinary residence lOLl kin Caleb CalebS S 8 Starr father Cole John W V ordinary seaman resh dence Tex kin John W Cole Sr Hr father Lacota Cedris Joseph ordinary seaman Reaman res residence Grand Mich father rand Allison Ralph IL H 11 |