| Show r T ON b GENERAL f L SL SLOCUM WM m DISASTER Hf Supply UI of Preservers the lie Crts Crew Ignorant 1 And A Ill iid I I TOTAL LACK LAOK OF DISCIPLINE Chief 1 Negligent t lI ent Notified of or licenses Revoked ie ew York ok sept Kept ILA re lion 1011 lies Just juit hUll made public of at an lin anIn In luu by 11 the thu loyal loval board loUIcI of ut Into Inlo limb the tIme MUM mo which nc J n In tim I ho Ihl Kurt I river UN last June JUlie sail nd lout Lost Tho The I is by lIy Jm A end and tut II end and U is tu to u Hubert Rubert B I Ito Iw tIle die In lii by b upon 1011 vented In the lilt board by thai thu federal fed nil statutes the of uC tt WIll blue of ot should on the u sa 1111 follow William II H mid and pilot Van atm Wart Warl tart Pilot F 1 chiot POINTS Briefly ft th time principal points of oC the hoards 1 or That th the II lire flu r wa was dIscovered at t tin time upper i ml nl of lIC the Sunken MeadOw eado arid and that hut North Bosch h Island Inland the near nelu t cit t available to 10 beech beach V Thud t life ills pro 1 Hi lit HiHi the Hi vessel Were Irl inadequate but bUl had thu tim Iwen ell supplied with time the num imm hem m not 1101 another lIfe If would have been heel of 01 tho the Ignorance and of lie I crew cre I Ii 1111 VUK absolute lark lack or of died on th Ih this part of oC tip inn crew because of tIm the negligence of the tue matter manatee and of at tho tue pilot That 1111 drill hart had be it Il and that tha I hid had the crew New been trained na III natho the tho law lat H It disaster would have been Chat one ono of the time crew In imis unco added to 10 the Incipient thumb Home l 1 y throwing all n empty 1 ly bag bau which hud contained c II charcoal That the lie chelf engineer WAS WAIl aM negligent when lien notified of or the the e In hl that he did not see nee ee that Ih I the horn hOle hid had been Iwen connected mid amid the water waler turned on oil iN BEGAN The rho Investigation Il July Jul G 11 and van Willi delayed by y the tho lea ice of or Capt Van Villi aiu which con cone II II N him him to time the hospital Under the law the only ani took look till tip the Ihl ron eon conduct duct of or time the vessels Time Tito other phases of ot the disaster were Investigated by a I special on old time the request of ot President Iett and consisting of oC lea Oen VII Wit Witson son BOH of oC the army anti and Commander Win slow Idol of o the navy h halt hall a not nol yet public UN its report Time The ln hi 1 say they timey heard 88 38 Twelve othera others Were vere ubI but bill ailed to 10 appear among them Coroner The rhe report reviews evidence n e by river and expert M Beet at st river and continue NC OF o ft A few minutes JI after the lime master wai ivas aware through l the tho speaking tube tuba In tho the pilot Mu e that tIle tho wa waon was R Ron on oil he SInn orders to the pilot to 10 bench the vessel on North Brother II li liland land html order was waft obeyed and time the wits 1111 beached probably within three minute In III the face of ot time the evidence we can call cannot c n not hot In iii arrIve at III any conclusion on nn this point other than that the tho un criticism panned naMed upon Capt Van for not having beached lila his steamer nt ot sonic some oilier othor point where ho lie did was vas wholly unmerited LI I n 1 The flue engineer Brandow It is highly for at lit hit his post timid and the machinery and crews of oC river craft who aided In rescuing the drowning nine are aro commended for their conduct The Inspectors rite rile evidence thuy re IOV received to 10 the effect that no M dead were found wearing lifts Ufa preservers and amid all l ex ox prose the belief that thit not lOl one life lite wee waa II lost of Inefficiency of 01 time the pre lure servers Berver The lime great gre t mortality accord accordIng Ing lag to their view 1011 waa Willi ite dUll due to 10 the Iho Im possibility of ot equipping lIt 1500 cI persons mostly children In ill a 1 few ow anti not to the age of ot the prec preservers many of ot which were stamped In lim 1881 1891 INO IP It 1 Is our OUt opinion the report de II that If It this Slocum had been heel with double time the quantity of In with IU n a crew craw a aR an I Incompetent as Its the cr crew w of time the II proved to bo be not miot n It single life more would have been saved 11 than was wall saved eared I LACK OK OI DISCIPLINE l The fht evidence before UK us Indicates an absolute tacit lack of 01 discipline on thu Ih purl of or time tile crew crt because of ot tho neglect of time the master mailer and qt qC tho Iho pilot who un under under j der time the Ih taw lit U Is next to 10 the tIme master In charge to 10 observe tho time provisions which Jl require those once at nl leant each week to rail call all al hand to 10 quarters quarter and them In him the discipline and ammO use of oC the tire fire pumps pump and anti all nil other apparatus atus attis for or the time safety of o life on board on such vessel 1 and to see IN that all sU the time equipments required by the law nr In Incomplete complete working order for lor Immediate use U lied Had this Ihl rule ule b been n observed and nud the Iho crew ere of th the Slocum been trained UN its UNto II to their In iii caw Ie of or tiro lito ibm or other accident nl to 10 the tho steamer It Ill Is I to 10 conceive that such lIuCh n R disaster could have occurred to 10 the time as aa did occur cur an as It Appears from tho the evidence before us 19 me that at least lenet three of 01 the new crew saw raw tIme tho fire when n a bucket or two mf wilier water which Will was clone Io o at hand h Ild wee waa nil 1111 that was wan needed n to 10 put It 1 out In Instead stead of ot dohl thin however one on Of It i ithem them added lIdd fuel to 10 the Llamas Ilam In hi the i chaps of ot tin empty emlI bag which had con contained charcoal and w ives i consequently saturated with Ith dust dUll from the III same ammo Im an n Ingredient about aboul as all Inflammable an nM gunpowder r Then nil of ot them ran mn to 10 tho the steam fir fire pump connection and made Inalle a n bungling attempt to 10 connect the Ih linaC ho therewith and tangled It Il Into InlO kink rendering It entirely The chief IIren In Ia revoked bl he hit failed to 10 ten 1101 O that time the hose hOf ow own wile n 1111 properly stretched III role hili before turning i on the power which caused It Il to burst bunt I I II |
